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Married. Prince Georg Wilhelm Christof of Prussia, 33, grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II, great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria; and Lady Brigid Katherine Rachel Guinness, 25, youngest daughter of the Earl of Iveagh, Dublin brewer; in Hadham, Hertfordshire, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 6, 1945 | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

Later, the Sun Goddess sent her grandson, Prince Rice-Plenty, to govern the Earth. In good time, the Sun Goddess' great-great-grandson, Jimmu, became Japan's first emperor. He commanded his descendants to bring all the eight corners of the universe under the one roof of Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The God-Emperor | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

Complaint. In Indianapolis, Charles Z. Bondy, who said he was the great-great-grandson of a white girl reared by the Miami Indians, sued to recover Indian land taken by the State, asked $10,000,000 damages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 8, 1941 | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

Jacob L ("Jakie") Webb, 23 (great-great-grandson of the late Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt), who last year was married for seven weeks, ran off with Manhattan's playful Lenore Lemmon, 18, to Moncks Corner, S.C. The bride, a refugee from Manhattan's Stork Club-excommunicated for scene-raising-had a bottle opener for a wedding ring. Blonde Vivian Stokes, 18, who canceled her debut after Jakie announced he would wed her, got the news of the elopement while she waited for Jakie in a nightclub. Said the ex-fiancée impetuously: "Jakie can have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hearts & Thistles | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

Jacob L. ("Jakie") Webb, ex-sailor, kept the Vanderbilt family in the love news by declaring he was about to elope with Vivian Stokes, Newport's current glamor girl. Twenty-three-year-old Jakie, briefly married two years ago, is the wandering great-great-grandson of the late Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, founder of the family fortune. Vivian, not quite 18, is scheduled to make a splashy Newport debut next week. Jakie turned up there after a three-month absence, declaring he had: joined Canada's Black Watch; ferried bombers to Britain; air-dueled with Germans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Love at Newport | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

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