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...outstanding debutante balls-of-the-week were two: Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Watson Armour (meats) and Mr. & Mrs. Walter Radcliffe Kirk (he recently sold his soap company to Procter & Gamble) gave a joint, lavish party at the Blackstone for their daughters Elsa Armour and Beatrice Kirk; Mr. & Mrs. Gustavus Franklin Swift (meats...
...House of Brahe. Per Brahe, third of the Swedish Brahes, married a sister of King Gustaf Vasa, "father of modern Sweden,'' in the early 16th century. His grandson, Per Brahe the Younger was Governor General of Finland. In 1632 Nils Brahe, of the "Blue Brigade," died with King Gustavus Adolphus in the Battle of Lützen...
...Congress, proposed that women be excluded from track, field and fencing events. Other delegates, mainly U. S. and German, rose in debate. The Count supported his proposal by reminding the Congress of the 800-metre event for women at Amsterdam in 1928, in which several girls collapsed. Gustavus Kirby, U. S. delegate, led the opposition. The French proposal, finally put to vote, was overwhelmingly defeated. In the Olympic games of 1932 women will run, fence and hurdle, swim, skate and ski. Stadia. At Amsterdam there was only one training field. At Los Angeles there will be 15. Seat facilities...
...Luther Gustavus Barrett, of Melrose. Born at Watertown, December...
...Natural History, Mrs. Delia J. Akeley, big game huntress whose late husband chose King Albert's site in 1920; Stanley Field, President of Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History; Dr. Robert M. Yerkes, Yale's ape expert; Dr. Lewis H. Weed of Johns Hopkins; James Gustavus Whiteley, Belgian Consul at Baltimore. He who would hunt apes or elephants on King Albert's 500,000 acres must have a scientific object in view...