Word: drexel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Colonel Anthony Joseph ("Tony") Drexel Biddle Jr., 49, dapper ex-playboy, prewar U.S. Ambassador to Poland, now Allied contact officer at U.S. headquarters in Europe; and Margaret Atkinson Loughborough, 32, a Canadian and former UNRRA worker; both for the third time; in Frankfurt, Germany...
Harold William Blackeby, Richard Brewster Fawcott, George Bell Frankforter, Jr., Alden Robert Grove, Charles Jomart Hardy, Wharton Drexel Hubbard, John Samuel Jillson, Edward Atkinson McLeod, Lawrence Newell Marcus, Charles Murray Purinton, Wendell Frederick Smith, Jr., John Le Baron Turner, William Russell Van Gemert, Stephen Jerome Welsh, De De Williams...
Divorced. Colonel Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., 48, wealthy, dapper, ex-playboy, wartime U.S. envoy to eight exiled governments in London, now on General Eisenhower's staff; by his second wife, Margaret Thompson Schulze Biddle, 48, mining heiress (his first wife was Mary Duke, tobacco heiress); after 14 years of marriage, no surviving children; in Paris...
Died. Lady Decies, 72, prominent socialite of the prewar Paris-New York set; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan. The daughter of Philadelphia Banker Joseph William Drexel, wealthy "Bessie" was a widow at 27, at 29 married Harry Symes Lehr, the Mauve Decade's "court jester" to U.S. Society. Under his tutelage she became the lush favorite of the Four Hundred, told much if not all in a bitter book ("King Lehr" and the Gilded Age) written after his death in 1929. Among the book's revelations: Lehr was a homosexual and had consented to marry only after...
Madeleine Carroll, who two years ago quit Hollywood to do war work, then went overseas on Red Cross duty, was something pretty special for S/Sgt. William W. Sharpe of Drexel Hill, Pa. to write home about: "Still confined to a wheelchair, but am thrilled every day when Madeleine Carroll takes me out for an airing...