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Born. To the Duchess of Kent, 35, formerly Princess Marina of Greece: her third child, second son; at Coppins, Iver, Buckinghamshire, England. Weight: 7 Ib. 4 oz. The infant (not yet named) is sixth in the line of direct succession to England's throne...
...paper that talked was the tabloid Philadelphia News, which gossiped: "The talk in official Russian circles here is that Premier V. M. Molotov of Soviet Russia is in this country on a secret mission of vast importance.") Actually, while photographers waited at the White House to catch the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, Molotov strolled slowly past them and not a camera clicked...
...Britain, and as Governor of the tiny Bahamas he might have been expected to escape grave political difficulties. At the beginning of the week, indeed, he was not even in the Bahamas. He was in the U.S. preparing to celebrate the fifth anniversary of his marriage to his chic Duchess, and he had just lunched at the White House with Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But, with the persistence of a bad conscience, the problem pursued him to his Washington ease, and presently the Duke had left his Duchess and was flying back to the Bahamas...
...cases form is the building's air raid shelter where all employees will go in the event of a bombing attack. Then, on a lower floor, there are the remains selected from the contents of 300 graves excavated in the famous cemetery of Magdalenaberg, Jugoslavia, by Her Highness, the Duchess Marie Antoinette of Mecklenberg, during the early twentieth century. The Peabody bought these objects, and the Duchess's descendants, regarding them as family heirlooms, have been regretting the sale ever since...
Some of the men & women the book deals with: the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough ("the courtliest man of his generation had married its most abusive virago"); Robert Walpole ("a great spoke in the Philistine wheel and a heavy stone in the capitalist edifice"); Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ("her personality, though it had its inconveniences while she lived, is exactly the sort that is welcomed in the dead"); John Wesley (who "was that fascinating type of fanatic-the 'rational' one ... 'I think,' said his father of him as a boy, 'I think our Jack would...