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...charming woman-about-Europe, secret but conscious hostess of innumerable bacteria, leaves behind her a fantastic trail of death & disease...
...Janeiro Mrs. Harold J. Coolidge, Boston social registerite is shortly sailing. It so happens that Edwin Vernon Morgan, the 65-year-old U. S. Ambassador to Brazil is a bachelor. After her 5493-mile journey, which will take three weeks, Mrs. Coolidge (no relation) will act as "official hostess'' for one night at a U. S. Embassy ball which, it is hoped, will be attended by Edward of Wales...
Died. Mrs. Elizabeth Caskie Cabell Ritchie, 78, mother of Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland, aunt of Author James Branch Cabell; of paralysis; in Annapolis, Md. During Governor Ritchie's three terms she was hostess in the Executive Mansion. Last fortnight she was too weak to attend his fourth inauguration, heard it by radio from across the street...
...childless, exquisite, subtly dissatisfied young matron (Zita Johann). He perceives that she is "an artist without an art," and, more particularly, a woman without a child. He recommends that she adopt one. But they become lovers and, when the doctor leaves for a pilgrimage to Europe, his hostess is pregnant...
...Italian servants "except his trusted butler" had been given the afternoon off, lest one of them assassinate Il Duce. To the Ambassador and Mrs. Garrett a friend sent humorous congratulations (for the point of the story was supposed to be that Il Duce had never before humored an Embassy hostess by a tea call). Came from Rome last week this cabled reply: EXCEPT FOR REVOLVERS RISKS SERVANTS SECRETARIES POTTED PALMS CORNERS AND SIX-SHOOTERS THE ARTICLE IS A TISSUE OF TRUTH STOP MERRY CHRISTMAS. JOHN AND ALICE GARRETT...