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Byron ("Whizzer") White, All-America halfback, Rhodes scholar and Navy hero, who forsook professional football's enticements ($15,000 a season) to study law, got the job most coveted by fledgling barristers. The job: clerk to Fred M. Vinson, Chief Justice...
Died. The Marquis Jules Philippe Felix Albert de Dion, 90, former "kingpin dude" of Parisian society who forsook boulevard gaieties in the '90s to become a pioneer automobile manufacturer, founder of the famed Automobile Club of France; in Paris...
Married. Baron Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 35, head of the British branch of the great banking family, who forsook finance to become a Cambridge don; and Teresa Georgina Mayor, O.B.E., 30; he for the second time, she for the first; in London...
...favorably impressed by his nonchalance: they expected him to draw enemy bombs. His good friend and commanding officer Major Randolph Churchill (an old-style aristocrat who now writes a column for United Feature Syndicate) cried something to the effect that this was not the Battle of Agincourt. Waugh forsook his lonely eminence, in icy rage removed his coat. "It was not your rudeness I minded," he explained to Major Churchill, "it was your cowardice that surprised...
...first 60 years of her life the charwoman so honored was Conchita Jurado, a born actress who never got a chance to act. One day in 1926 she forsook her scrubbing brush. She donned trousers, overcoat, slouch felt hat, a false-diamond stickpin and a false black mustache, and sortied into Mexican society. That day and until her death five years later, she was Don Carlos Balmori, an eccentric bachelor grandee with vast fortunes and castles in Spain...