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...third great bluebook, Debrett's Peerage, concerns itself less with genealogy and more with cataloguing present nobility...
...keep from stumbling in matters of royal protocol. The Dallas Times-Herald asked the British consul to sit in the newsroom as an adviser on ceremony and mourning. Manhattan's Herald Tribute hastily bought a clear, factual story on royal succession, titles, etc., by Editor Cyril Hankinson of Debrett's Peerage...
Unlisted so far in this geographical Debrett's has been the name of Andrei Zhdanov. Cominform chief, who died last August. But last week that omission stood corrected. From the Kremlin had come orders that the following were to be renamed in Zhdanov's honor: 1) the town of Mariupol, where he was born; 2) the Tagansky District of Moscow; 3) the Primorsky District of Leningrad; 4) Rozhdestvenka Street in Moscow; 5) the Izhora Shipbuilding Works; 6) Moscow's Exemplar Printing Works; 7) the Krasnoye-Sormovo Metal Works; 8) the Vladimir Tractor Works; 9) the Leningrad State...
...after Edward VIII's abdication appeared last week a new edition of Burke's Peerage, ranking the Duchess of Windsor in England as the 33rd Lady in the Land, ranking the Duke 4th (i.e., after his three brothers). It was next discovered last week that the new Debrett's Peerage, an equally standard work, ranks the Duchess as 8th Lady. Consulted about this discrepancy, the Royal College of Arms this week inclined to agree with Debrett's, but weaseled by declaring "only the King is able to state the exact position...
...inconspicuous newspaper magnates in Britain is a sandy-haired, London-born Jew, 67-year-old Julius Salter Elias (TIME, March 8), boss of Odhams Press Ltd., who has an interest in over 100 periodicals, ranging from the Daily Herald, a Labor paper with over 2,000,000 circulation, to Debrett's (Britain's Social Register). Fleet Street newshawks have long been certain of one fact about elusive Publisher Elias-that for years he has coveted a title, to become formally the peer of Britain's only two comparable press tycoons, Barons Beaverbrook (Daily Express) and Rothermere (Daily...