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Whatever might come of this, Mrs. Brady was finished with "Inisfada," and almost finished with her seven years of widowhood. Fortnight ago she admitted she is engaged to marry the Irish Free State Minister to the Vatican, William J. Babington Macaulay (TIME, Feb. 22). Last week Minister Macaulay left Vatican City, bound for a vacation in the U. S. Whether or not the marriage would be performed, as had been predicted, in Rome by Papal Secretary of State Pacelli, who visited at "Inisfada" last autumn (TIME, Oct. 19 et seq.), performed it soon would be in a manner befitting...
...Bill" Macaulay first met the Bradys when he was a career diplomat in the British Civil Service. Born of a good Irish county family (no kin to British Historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lord Macaulay), he transferred to the Irish Free State service when it was set up in 1924 was sent to Washington as secretary, later became counsellor at the Free State Legation. Dark-haired, affable, fond of bridge, Counsellor Macaulay was popular in the quiet set of Mrs. Lawrence Townsend in Washington, sometimes saw-Mrs. Brady at parties. In 1930 he was appointed Free State Consul General in Manhattan...
...functions of a Minister to the Vatican from a small state like the Irish Free State are pleasant and nominal. Minister Macaulay maintains a friendly interest in the Roman houses of study of Irish orders, pays a formal visit once a week to Secretary of State Pacelli, spends the rest of his time representing his State at Rome's innumerable parties and church ceremonies. Presumably after his marriage Minister Macaulay will, unless perhaps transferred to Washington as Minister, use his modest Rome legation as an office, and Casa del Sole as his official home. But while his lady will...
Superintendents. Although exhibitors may help pay the bills, superintendents value their convention as one time in the year when they are free to speak up without cocking a cautious eye at their school boards. Atlanta's Superintendent Willis A. Sutton complained: "The problem of continuing a progressive program, and at the same time being able to continue in office, constitutes one of the gravest dangers to a Superintendent of Schools. The displacement of men in high positions at the strategic centres of our country has been the shame of education in the past decade." Superintendent Sutton had to mention...
...Cecil Rhodes's, wintered there for seven years. Kipling's best-known poem, If,* which has been translated into 27 languages, was based on the character of Dr. Leander Starr Jameson, of Jameson Raid fame. Much of his patriotic verse (including Recessional) was given to newspapers free. "It does not much matter what people think of a man after his death, but I should not like the people whose good opinion I valued to believe that I took money for verses on Joseph Chamberlain, Rhodes, Lord Milner or any of my South African verse in The Times...