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These students were registered members of Economics $44 which began classes on June 28 when the S. S. Argentina sailed for the cast coast of South America. The group was headed by Professor Norman T. Ness of Pomona College, California, and was sponsored by the Countess Elaine de Pierrefeu...
Died. William Meade Lindsley Fiske III, 29, famed U. S. winter-sportsman, driver of winning Olympic bobsleds (1928, 1932), reputedly the first American to join the R. A. F. as a pilot; of wounds received during aerial combat; somewhere in southeastern England. In 1938 Mr. Fiske married the beauteous Countess of Warwick...
Last March 21, Paul Reynaud became Premier of France. Power fit him well, but was ungainly on the Countess de Fortes. She began to fancy herself as a power in the State, and while France's troubles grew graver, her meddling voice grew shriller. She got hysterical when Frenchmen whispered that France's fleur de Us was being crowded by a faded fleur du lit. At Tours and at Bordeaux, she was constantly in Government hair. Then Reynaud, France, and Countess de Portes's hopes for grandeur fell...
Motoring from Bordeaux to the Riviera on June 28, Paul Reynaud and Helene de Portes ran off the road. He injured his head. The Countess de Portes, having lost all for which she lived, lost her life...
Among hundreds of European refugees who poured into the U. S. last week were: the Countess of Carnarvon, Vienna-born Dancer Tilly Losch; lean, stoop-shouldered Baron Edouard de Rothschild, retired head of the Paris branch of the international banking house (who declared over $1,000,000 in jewels to customs authorities), his wife and daughter; French Playwright Henri Bernstein; mystic Belgian Dramatist Count Maurice Maeterlinck, 77, his long white locks protected from the sea wind by a Göringesque hair net, his pretty, redheaded actress wife Renee, 45. Maeterlinck, who said he had nothing left but royalties from...