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...most easy-going of Governors," because the first MacDonald Government gave him his viscountcy in 1924. He is acceptable to the Liberals because he is a Liberal, has been a party member both in the Commons and the Lords. He is acceptable to the Conservatives because as captain of Eton and Cambridge teams he is remembered as a cricketer who could bowl a fast "googly," an ability which still serves him well, spinning curling stones over slippery Canadian ice; because he is a famed grouse shot, was once told by George V (one of the best wing shots in England...
...Minister to Guatemala is Sheldon Whitehouse, an urbane gentleman with naturally wavy hair and a cultivated voice (he is one of the extremely few U. S. diplomatists who have been schooled at Eton). Onetime private secretary of the late great Whitelaw Reid, he married the daughter of Mrs. Charles Beatty Alexander. He served with some eclat as Counselor of the U. S. Embassy in Paris and Madrid. In 1927, as Charge d'Affaires in Paris, he made news by setting detectives to watch over New York's playful Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker. No one supposed that Diplomatist...
...raced as two-year-olds. All were horses belonging to the stable of Harry Payne Whitney, and the men who took care of them were wondering what their fate was to be. For their master was dead (TIME, Nov. 3) and it seemed possible that the Whitney colors, Eton blue and brown, made notable more than 50 years ago by grandfather William Collins Whitney, might disappear from the turf. Everything depended on what Mr. Whitney's son and heir, Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney would do. Two days after his father's death he had suggested that he might...
Engagement Reported. Capt. Marshall Field III, onetime student at Eton College and Cambridge University, sportsman, head of Field, Glore & Co. (Chicago brokers), director of Guaranty Trust Co. (New York); to Audrey James Coats, London society beauty, widow of Dudley Coats, daughter of Mrs. Willie James who was an illustrious hostess in London and a close friend of Edward VII. The present Mrs. Marshall (Evelyn Marshall) Field III is in Reno, expecting a divorce early in August. Last week, Capt. Field made his first solo airplane flight, at Roosevelt Field, L. I.; flew 20 minutes, landed four times...
...John Masefield's parents are known, they have escaped the standard works of reference. He was "just born" in grimy Liverpool. At 14 he was not wearing an Eton collar but windjamming on seas high and wild. Instead of matriculating at Oxford he sought, while working as a handyman around a New York saloon, to learn the art of bartending but was never deemed sufficiently adept. No matter? his poems sold. He went to Oxford in 1922 to be made a D. Litt. honoris causa. Intentionally or not the new Poet Laureate symbolizes the fact that Britain is now ruled...