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...coming-of-age dinner to Son Randolph Churchill in London's Socialite Claridges Hotel. Newspaper Peers Beaverbrook, Rothermere and Camrose all brought their sons as did Admiral Earl Beatty, Prime Minister Viscount Craigavon of Northern Ireland and Viscount Hailsham, Minister of War, whose son is the Hon. Quintin Hogg. The coming-of-age toast to Son Churchill, who sat between his kinsman the Duke of Marlborough and the Marquess of Reading, was proposed by the youthful Earl of Birkenhead, son of England's late and perhaps greatest Lord Chancellor. Cut and chomped was a coming-of-age cake...
Like Delaware with its du Ponts, North Carolina with its Dukes, California with its Stanfords, Alabama with its late Harvey G. Woodward (TIME, Jan. 5), Texas had a friend to education in the late William Clifford Hogg, oilman who died in Baden-Baden a year ago (TIME, Sept. 22, 1930). Son of the late Governor James Stephen Hogg, brother of Michael and Ima Hogg,* he made a fortune in oil, willed a large part of it to schools and colleges. Appraisal last week revealed the extent of the bequests: a total of $2,618,568. In the discretion of Brother...
...Blanche particularly, wanted to know why. She refused to accept any other government post until her name had been cleared. She comes of potent family: her brother is Lord Penrhyn and she is related to Viscounts Falmouth and Portman, Sir W. E. Cuthbert-Quilter and Dudley M'Garel-Hogg, Lord Magheramorne. There were editorials in the newspapers and an investigation by the House of Lords Select Committee. Nothing came of it except a brief statement from the Attorney General in the House of Commons...
Then came one Charles Cooper to examine the skeleton. It was his nephew Perlie, he said, 16-year-old Perlie Guelsby Hogg who disappeared Dec. 16, 1922. He remembered that "Perlie was carefree and happy when he started out to school that morning. He was thinking of Christmas vacation and the good times he could have hunting. He didn't have any enemies. ... I worried for weeks about his disappearance...
...Often mentioned as a member of this Hogg (pronounced Hawg) family is one named Ura, but she (he) never existed...