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Born. To Jessica Lucy ("Decca") Freeman-Mitford Romilly, 23, sister of Hitler Friend Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, and fifth of Lord Redesdale's six beauteous daughters; and Esmond Marcus David Romilly, 22, nephew of Winston Churchill's wife, onetime warrior for Loyalist Spain, now training with the Royal Canadian Air Force; a daughter, their first child; in Washington...
...does once a year, out from his Cambridge retirement crept crotchety, cantankerous Emeritus Professor Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland, 80. to read to 400 Harvard freshmen. He asked some questions about Gulliver's Travels and Henry Esmond. The students' replies showed that they did not know very much about either Swift or Thackeray. Moaned "Copey": "Gentlemen, I pray...
...Hungary at Versailles. Astonished Hungarians went wild with enthusiasm, showered gifts on Rothermere, named a street after him in Budapest. A Hungarian newspaper, Pesti Hirlap, supposedly backed by some members of the Government, offered Rothermere the crown of Hungary. When he refused, it was offered to his son Esmond...
...Lord Rothermere retired as chairman of Associated Newspapers, Ltd., turned the management of his properties over to young Esmond. Three years ago he gave up business completely. Last spring the man who took Northcliffe's place as Britain's Press Peer No. 1-gnomelike little Baron Beaverbrook, publisher of the mammoth London Daily Express, Minister of Aircraft Production-took Rothermere out of retirement, sent him to Canada and the U. S. on a special war mission. Harold Harmsworth was still rich, but old and tired. Month ago he went to Bermuda for a rest. His granddaughter was with...
Married. Vivien Leigh, 26, cinemactress; and Laurence Olivier, 33, cinemactor; in Santa Barbara, Calif.; four days after British Barrister Herbert Leigh Hoi-man's divorce from Miss Leigh became final, 25 days after British Actress Jill Esmond obtained an absolute decree from Olivier...