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Irving T. Bush, president of Bush Terminal Co., back in the U. S. from honeymooning in Europe with his third wife (former Marian Spore, Michigan heiress, Manhattan mystic and social worker) paid without protest $83,000 in duties and fines for undeclared jewelry worth $40,000. Officials stated there was no attempt at smuggling, simply a dispute over duties on jewelry purchased in the U. S., reset in Europe, brought back. Their fines paid, the Bushes sailed once more for Europe...
Buxom Queen Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria last week personally read her Speech-from-the-Throne at the opening of the Netherlands Parliament. Not only Queen Wilhelmina, but indomitable Queen Mother Emma, portly Prince Henry (Wilhelmina's spouse) and plump Princess Juliana, heiress to the throne, were there, almost 700 Ib. of Royal Dutch...
...Heiress, Bloomfield drygoods merchant, is generally given credit for thinking up the plan. He organized and became president of the Bloomfield Retail Merchants Association. During his regime the Bloomfield Monitor of Feb. 23, 1928 carried a memorable proclamation by the merchants: No more retail credit would be given in Bloomfield after April 1. Any member of the Association caught extending credit would be fined $100. Twenty-two Bloomfield businesses backed the scheme...
...that the witty, rich and velvet sophistication out of which Philip Barry fashioned the best comedy of the 1928-29 theatrical season has not, in translation to the screen, been exchanged for the crude, stuffy plushes of Hollywood naivete. Presenting the situation of a youth engaged to marry an heiress but unwilling to accept the pompous responsibilities of great wealth, the story and its spirit might easily have been suffered to lapse into the Poor Little Rich Girl stereotype. When Johnny Case, deserting Julia Seton simply so he can have a holiday, is followed to Paris by Julia...
President John Thompson Dorrance (soup) sent to be presented at the Royal Court his daughter Charlotte. President Edward William Edwards (bottles) sent his Eleanore, President A. Atwater Kent (radio) his Elizabeth. But in her own right came Miss Doris Duke, greatest heiress of the nation where most money is, daughter of the late, international tobacco tycoon James B. Duke, plain, wholesome, sweet eighteen...