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Heading the list of patronesses for the affair was Mrs. James Bryant Conant. Others included Mrs. Homer Albers of Brookline, Mrs. Stanley Cobb of Milton, Mrs. Grosvenor Calkins of Newton, Mrs. Harrison Lyman of Winchester, Mrs. Thomas W. Little of Belmont, Mrs. Arthur W. Reed of Belmont; Mrs. Frank A. Pemberton of Chestnut Hill and Mrs. Frank J. Ludwig of Brookline...
...night last week the 1940 crop of 196 top-ranking British debutantes, all of whom would have liked to have stuck Prince of Wales feathers in their hair and gone to Buckingham Palace, stuck flowers in their hair instead and went to swank Grosvenor House. For this war year there will be no court presentations of debutantes, and-at a loss to London caterers, florists, et al. of $3,000,000-no individual debut balls. It was all done at one whack at the Grosvenor, and it was the biggest social event in London since break...
...Cecilia Fitzroy, cousin of the Duke of Grafton, Miss Mary Philippa Gary, niece of Viscount Falkland. Since Britain is bent on making this a democratic war, privates in uniform did not have to stay off the dance floor, as in 1914-8, twirled about the Great Room of the Grosvenor on a social par with their officers. With healthy appetites, debs and escorts gobbled large slices of the vast cake when it was finally and solemnly cut by the five hostesses, but of whoopee there was almost none and only moderate quaffing of champagne...
...worked fast. Hanging to the telephone, he had ordered consulates in Belfast, Dublin and Liverpool-where most Americans embarked-to get the names of passengers. When he arrived that morning at the seven-story red-brick former apartment house that is now the U. S. Embassy, No. 1 Grosvenor Square, he was able to cable the State Department an almost complete list of Americans aboard. Two days later, in tension and in shirt sleeves, Joe Kennedy spent his 51st birthday working at his desk...
...issue of TIME, you have an item entitled "Three Hutchinses." What about the fourth, William Grosvenor Hutchins, instructor of English at Western Reserve Academy, Hudson, Ohio...