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Your May 28 reference that Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, "onetime Premier of Italy, is the last surviving member of World War I's Versailles Treaty-makers" is incorrect if it is admitted that the Rt. Hon. William Morris ("Billy") Hughes was one of the Treaty-makers...
...different route." Some of the star guides were also missing. Undergraduate Miles Jebb, son of the U.N.'s Sir Gladwyn, did not show up to conduct the tour through Magdalen College ("He's so tired of being his father's son"). Nor did the Hon. Antonia Pakenham, whose bailiwick was Lady Margaret Hall ("She had her parents down yesterday...
...Anything to declare?" a customs officer asked the Hon. Mrs. Graham Lampson, just back from France, in London's drafty Victoria Station one day last week. "Half a hundredweight [56 Ibs.] of coal," she replied. And there it was, in her immaculate suitcase, each lump neatly wrapped in tissue paper. Mrs. Lampson, daughter-in-law of Baron Killearn, first British Ambassador to Egypt, explained that French friends, concerned over Britain's critical fuel shortage, had given it to her so she could keep warm...
...members: the Hon. David W. Peck presiding justice, appellate division, New York Supreme Court, chairman; Commissioner Frederick A. Moran, chairman, New York Board of Parole; Brigadier General Conrad E. Snow assistant legal adviser, Department of State...
Eugene Higgins, multimillionaire bachelor, and hon vivant, willed the bulk of his estate, $38,500,000 for "education in natural and physical sciences" before he died in the summer of 1948. Each university was instructed to use the money "to promote the general advancement of science by investigation, research, and experiment...