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Lord Ogilvy is in fact no lord. His proper name is Captain the Hon. Lyulph Gilchrist Stanley Ogilvy. He was the second son of the seventh Earl of Airlie, who took him to Colorado on a visit in 1879, when Lyulph was a wild young blood of 18, and bought him a ranch near Greeley. There Lyulph spent 20 years living on his patrimony...
...writes his stories in batches, five or six at a time, always keeps a week or so ahead, shows up at the Post when he feels like working. Son Jack, a Harvard graduate, Ph.D., is an instructor in English at the University of Colorado. His niece, incidentally, is the Hon. Clementine Hozier Churchill, wife of Britain's Prime Minister...
...Hon. Neville Chamberlain, formerly Prime Minister of Great Britain, after undergoing an abdominal operation, expected to keep him from his office for two weeks; in a London hospital...
...displaying "great dash and gallantry" and bagging eight enemy planes, R. A. F. Squadron Leader the Hon. Maxwell ("Max") Aitken, 30, son & heir of Napoleonic little British Publisher Lord Beaverbrook, now Minister for Aircraft Production, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross...
Lieut, the Hon. Evelyn Boscawen. heir to Viscount Falmouth and not long out of Cambridge, died as a Coldstream Guardsman in Flanders. Lieut. Sir Marmaduke Charles Henry Joseph Casimir Blenner-hasset was killed while serving as a Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, leaving a nine-day-old successor to his baronetcy...