Word: fairfields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Captain Ernest Aldrich Simpson, 40, onetime husband of the Duchess of Windsor; to Mary Kirk Raff ray, 41, childhood friend of his onetime wife; by special permission after a judge waived Connecticut's five-day notice and blood test laws; in Fairfield. Mrs. Raffray, who introduced Ship-Broker Simpson and Wallis Warfield (then Mrs. Earl W. Spencer) in 1925, was divorced three weeks ago from Jacques Achille Louis Raffray, Manhattan insurance broker...
However, little "personal need" is in evidence at the Ethiopian royal family's seven-acre estate, Fairfield, outside Bath, England. The 14-room Georgian house is jammed with furniture, expensive rugs hurriedly crated out of Ethiopia when the Negus and entourage fled. Behind the high walls the Emperor strides along beside his elderly cousin, Ras Kassa, on their morning walks. His favorite reading is, ironically, "diplomatic history," but most of his serious hours are occupied with the 90,000-word story of his life which he is laboriously turning out in Amharic. The 14-year-old Duke of Harrar...
Married. Princess Natalie Paley, 31, daughter of the late Grand Duke Paul of Russia; to John Chapman Wilson, 38, producer for Noel Coward; in Fairfield, Conn...
...museum trustee who last week undertook to head the campaign for the $10,779,925 is Lawyer Alexander Perry Osborn, eldest son of the museum's late President Henry Fairfield Osborn. Out of Princeton in 1905, out of Harvard Law School (he edited the Harvard Law Review) in 1909, young Perry Osborn became special guardian of the infant children of John Jacob Astor after that multi-millionaire sank with the S. S. Titanic (1912). During the War, he organized the War Credits Board. He served as chairman of the committee for the reorganization of the Army General Staff. Currently...
...general holiday proclaimed. At New Haven where Yale dormitories were decked with Landon banners but no boos were uttered, the President lunched with his eldest son's father-in-law, Dr. Harvey Gushing. Most enthusiastic crowd appeared in Socialist Bridgeport, but all through the shore towns of Fairfield County throngs packed the sidewalks and women and children were bumped by cars. At Stamford so many people jammed the station that it took police 15 minutes to get the President aboard his special, headed back to Washington...