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Married. Anthony Drexel Duke, 21, grandnephew of tobacco-rich James B. ("Buck") Duke, founder of Duke University; and Alice Noel Rutgers, 19, one of whose forebears was land-rich Colonel Henry Rutgers, benefactor of Rutgers University; in Rumson...
Long, narrow Dr. Emerson, a grandnephew of Philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, is bland and diplomatic. His chief arguments against compulsory health insurance are: 1) the U. S. needs no planned medical care, for its citizens are in excellent health [despite Government statistics to the contrary]: 2) political appointees would run insurance systems. Doctors, says Dr. Emerson, must stay out of politics...
...Lesseps, who had to pay for a seat to see a dramatization of his famed father, TIME'S apologies for a mistake. Both M. de Lesseps and the Marques de Casa Fuerte, grandnephew of the Empress Eugenie, sought injunctions to have Suez suppressed in France. Last week, in a Paris court, the referee rejected both petitions on the ground that the film does not offend either ancestor "perniciously," contains "charming naïveties as well as inaccuracies...
...Last week Chicagoans were still chuckling over capers of another sort. Henry Field,** grandnephew of the late Marshall Field and curator of physical anthropology at the Field Museum, had given a party with a friend at their Lake Shore Drive apartment. Guests, asked to bring live animals, turned up with a deodorized skunk, a singing duck, two colored baby chickens worn on a woman's hat, a white rat which bore a litter of ten during the party. Anthropologist Field's contributions: 1) a seal which he could not get into the freight elevator; 2) an un- housebroken...
David Kawananakoa, "Prince Koke" to white Hawaiians, is the grandnephew of the last male member of Hawaii's long line of native kings-fat, pleasure-loving David Kalakaua, who liked to play poker for 48 hours at a stretch, died in 1891. Prince Koke's mother is Princess Kawananakoa, Hawaiian Republican National Committeewoman from 1924 to 1936 who recently entertained Maryland's Senator Millard E. Tydings and his wife when they visited Hawaii on a Congressional junket. Famed in Honolulu as a yachtsman and playboy, Prince Koke's greeting to police at his beach house...