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...Lenoir, N.C. Her own big break came in 1939 when Soprano Grace Moore heard her, and sent her to Italy to study with famed Tenor Beniamino Gigli's teacher. Despite the war, Dorothy wanted to stay in Naples, but her worried family managed to get the U.S. consul to have her forcibly deported...
Born for war, Mosby fared far less famously in peace. He served seven years as U.S. Consul at Hong Kong, returned to enjoy a modest success in the North as author and lecturer. But "the reckless abandon with which he attacked and galloped away as a Partisan could not be repeated as a citizen." Sunk in irascible senility, he died at Washington in 1916, aged 82, his glory all but forgotten...
FRANCISCO HINESTROSA M. Ex-Consul of Honduras in Belize, British Honduras Guatemala City...
...Tuncks Is a Good Name." Manley Hopkins, Gerard's father, not only wrote books giving Advice and Instructions to the Master Mariner in Situations of Doubt, Difficulty, and Danger; he was also consul general in London for the then-independent Hawaiian Islands. Sons Arthur and Everard contributed drawings to Punch; Lionel, British Consul in Chefoo, collected "ancient incised bones...
Last week he said: "If I can't get my services accepted by the Chinese consul general in Canada, I'll go directly to China. I could be in India in 48 hours. How, I shan...