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...attack of shingles, Dr. Hugh Hampton Young of Johns Hopkins might never have written his autobiography. And that would have been a pity. For, besides being the foremost urologist in the U. S., 70-year-old Dr. Young is a raconteur of parts. His memoirs, Hugh Young: A Surgeon's Autobiography (Harcourt, Brace; $5), bursting with scientific facts and exquisite drawings of urologic diseases and operations, make a lusty, gusty book...
Married. Barbara Gushing, 23, dark, slender, beauteous daughter of the late great brain surgeon Harvey Gushing, sister of young Mrs. James Roosevelt; and Harvardman Stanley Graf ton Mortimer Jr., 27; in East Hampton...
Gangsters. Discovered in London last fortnight was a mobile defense unit against parachutists, formed and drilled secretly (lest the U. S. State Department become exercised). It was composed of 60 Americans with property and interests in Britain. Commander was Brigadier General Wade Hampton Hayes (retired), 61, onetime Sunday editor of the old New York Tribune, member of General Pershing's staff in World War I. A leading spirit was Charles Sweeney, 30, of Federation Bank & Trust Co., sporting brother of onetime (1937) British Amateur Golf Champion Robert ("Bob") Sweeney, who now lives in the U. S. Brother Robert helped...
...knew, but it was still considerable. Most of it went to Edward Harkness' widow. When she dies, the Commonwealth Fund (founded by Edward's mother) will get half, the Presbyterian Hospital a quarter and the rest will be divided among Columbia, Yale, Harvard, St. Paul's, Hampton Institute, Atlanta University, the New York Public Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, two New York City charities. To 78 employes who had helped him distribute his philanthropies, Edward Harkness left $1,250,000. A loyal Yaleman to the last, Mr. Harkness bequeathed $400,000 to Old Blue Malcolm Aldrich...
...soon as he had a chance, George Augustus' bored father, George I, fled from England to his beloved Hanover for a long vacation. Prince George Augustus and lively Caroline proceeded to ingratiate themselves with the English at cheerful Hampton Court, surrounded by learned English divines and delightful English ladies. To the stolid, jealous King, who already detested his son and feared his daughter-in-law, their merrymaking was impertinent. A year later George Augustus and Caroline were summarily expelled from the royal household, set up an "opposition court" at Leicester House, where Careerists Pope and Gay and the ugly...