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...research. They discovered that the three bits of land had been claimed for the U. S. in 1860 under the terms of the Guano Islands Act. Jarvis, a treeless, scrubless coral patch less than two sq. mi. in area, was originally discovered by the U. S. sailing ship Eliza Thomas in 1821. In the days when the nitrates from bird-droppings were worth big money, Jarvis was an important place for guano hunters...
...President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, his late spinster Sister Eliza left $2,000 "in recognition of his unfailing generous and constantly loving care during my entire life and in token of the deep affection which I have...
...Died, Eliza Rhees Butler, 62, executive secretary of the women's committee on college contacts at Columbia University, sister of Columbia's President Nicholas Murray Butler; of heart disease, in Manhattan...
...plays the soprano saxophone, next feted hundreds of guests at a champagne breakfast in the Mayfair Hotel where "Momma" proved a hostess of surprising aplomb. Sarawak's laughing Eliza gave her husband a gold cigaret case, received a mink coat, disappeared in their snorting Sunbeam car for a three-week honeymoon at Juanles-Pins. Later she will play a 17-week engagement in Great Britain's provinces, jazz-singing with the Roy Band...
International swanksters recalled the recent marriage of Manhattan Socialite Marjorie Oelrichs to Jazzman Eddie Duchin whose Central Park Casino orchestra used to burst into the flattering strains of Margie whenever she arrived (TIME, June 17). Raja Brooke's jazz-struck Eliza was for a time a friend of languorous Scottish Actor Jack Buchanan who used to sing Eliza to her and nearly got her a part in a cinema. Three years ago she graduated to Bandster Roy, who calls her "Dedi" because simple Sarawak natives know her as "The Dayang Pearl." Mr. Roy rides mornings in Rotten Row, crickets...