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...Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news: Margaret Rose was chosen as the name for the month-old daughter of the Duke & Duchess of York (TIME, Sept. i). She will be christened at Buckingham Palace in October. Robert Tyre Jones Jr., practicing near Philadelphia for the U. S. Amateur golf championship at Merion Cricket Club (TIME, Sept. 22), denied he had suffered an attack of appendicitis. Said he: "I just had a stomach ache." He moved the scene of his practicing from the Merion club to parts unknown, to escape mobs of admiring gawkers. Later...
...that would not grow into a hog during the course of the play's run. She preferred a quiet animal that could make its public appearance without wiggling, kicking, snorting. An occasional squeal would be permitted on stage, however, for the only way Alice knows that the Duchess' baby, which she has been holding, is nothing but a pig is by its squeal...
...rumors quickly spread from Bucharest: 1) That Carol had abandoned all hope of reconciliation with Helen, was trying to arrange a wedding with a member of the house of Bourbon-Orleans of France, "probably the Duchess of Guise." 2) That Carol would be crowned alone, would have a morganatic marriage with red-headed Mme Magda Lupescu. Correspondents realized that even a morganatic marriage with Mme Lupescu would cause the finest series of anti-Semitic outbreaks Rumania has ever seen, that the Duchess of Guise is 52, and married to the Pretender to the throne of France. Married...
Born. To Princess Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon, Duchess of York, and Prince Albert Frederick Arthur George. Baron Killarney, Count of Inverness. Duke of York: a daughter (their second). Weight: 7 Ib. Probable names: Cecelia Victoria Margaret...
Physicians told the Marquis Marie Paul Ernest Boniface de Castellane ("Count Boni"), onetime husband of the onetime Anna Gould who became later the Marquise de Talleyrand-Perigord & Duchess de Sagan, that his paralysis would end with death. Two weeks ago he bade come to his bedside at a set hour many friends, a priest. From his friends he received adieus, from the priest the church's last rites. Then he waited for Death...