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Dusky Prince Batoula, 44-year-old heir apparent to a native "throne" in Senegal, French West Africa, corrected last week the impression that he was going to make a Princess out of Harriet Mercer, a Harlem laundress whom he met on a recent visit to New York City. In a darkened salon of his Paris apartment His Highness, who already has four wives in Africa, told a United Press correspondent that he had offered to pay Miss Mercer's steamship fare and expenses to Paris only because he wanted her as a secretary and an English teacher...
Born. To Robin ("Bazooka Bob") Burns, homely, hayseed film clown, and Harriet Foster Burns, his second wife; their second (his third) child, an 8½-lb. boy. Name: Robin Burns Jr. Christening gift: a baby bazooka...
...stately maroon Daimler has all the old-fashioned dignity of its royal owner. One day last week both received a nasty bump. Returning from a visit to the Royal Horticultural Society gardens with Queen Mary, Captain Lord Claude Nigel Hamilton, her controller and equerry, and Lady Constance Harriet Stuart Milnes Gaskell, a woman of the bedchamber, the high old limousine was caught on the right by a truck loaded with steel, skittered sideways, struck the curbing and overturned. The occupants were tumbled among automobile cushions and flowers, and the doors jammed shut. But eyewitnesses soon unscrambled the royal party...
...Philip C. Beals Dinny Chaffee, Belmont Robert C. Benchley Jr. Doris-Ann Graham, Englewood, N. J. Rodney Hoynton Polly Blodgett, Boston Leon H. Brachman Marcia Wilson, Dorchester Charles Breunig Mary Lewis, Indianapolis Jack E. Bronston Georgia Clark, Rochester, N. H. Walter D. Brooks Anne Keith, Campello Robert P. Brundage Harriet Leatherbee, West Newton Joseph P. Burke Ann Corcoren, Cambridge Henry D. Burnham Elvine Richard, Hewlit, Long Island Chadwick R. Byer Shirley Saxe, Brookline Winthrop L. Carter Diana Fraser, Cambridge William E. Chambers Mitzl Berardi, Cleveland Frederick H. Chatfield Nancy Vogel, Brookline Robert Franklin Chick Dorothy Folk, Brooklyn Edward S. Cholmeley...
Owner of the Egoist Press, publisher of The Egoist, Harriet Weaver was a shy little wisp of a woman, terrified by the dramatic manners of the literary great she patronized. She has been called "an authentic but difficult saint." To Joyce she proved an angel. In 1922, to assure him complete peace of mind and concentration on his work, Egoist Weaver gave him a large sum of money outright. Most reliable information puts it at ?40,000 (about $200,000). With this gift Joyce's biography becomes largely a bibliography...