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Died. Anna Gould, Duchess of Talleyrand, 83, daughter of Rail Tycoon Jay Gould and one of the first of the American heiresses whose marriages infused new blood-and new money-into Europe's sagging aristocracy; of a heart attack; in Paris. Wed to Count Boniface de Castellane in 1895...
On a recent tour through the backlands of his mountainous country, Peru's Premier Pedro Beltran, 64, a descendant of the Spanish conquistadors, stopped off in the ancient Inca city of Cuzc0,11,200 ft. up in the Andes. A howling, Communist-led mob of Indian peasants, descendants of...
Up from Iboland. Despite a reputation for being emotional and showy, Jaja Wachuku at 42 stands head and shoulders above most of his African brethren at the U.N., in ability and common sense. Descendant of 20 generations of African chiefs in the Ibo country of Eastern Nigeria, he went to...
Greeted as "Lady Paulina Peeps" by a London magistrate trying her on a traffic charge, Lady Paulina Mary Louise Pepys, second daughter of the sixth Earl of Cottenham and a descendant of 17th century Diarist Samuel Pepys, shook lovers of English literature the world over with her reply. "Sorry," she...
G. & C. Merriam Co. is the only direct descendant, corporately speaking, of Noah Webster,* who in 1828 produced the first truly American dictionary, which in its 70,000 listings stressed the New World's lusty new words, from applesauce to skunk. The descendants have never matched Noah's...