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Died. Clara Cook Kellogg, 80, widow of ex-Secretary of State, ex-Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Frank Billings Kellogg; in St. Paul. A popular hostess in Washington and London, she was a tactful, patient woman whose grace often counteracted her husband's impulsive conversation. Kellogg once wrote that Coolidge said he had made him Ambassador as much because of Mrs. Kellogg as Kellogg himself...
...Cliveden, overlooking the tranquil Thames, Viscountess Astor, the Tory Party's Munich-era hostess and perennial mosquito, buzzed anathema. Some of it was against Paul Joseph Goebbels, who was gleefully repeating to Russia her statement that the Russians were fighting "not for us . . . for themselves" (TIME, Aug. 10). Most of it was against her fellow M.P.s, the British press and her own Plymouth constituency, who were hopping mad at Nancy Astor. M.P.s hunted loopholes in Commons privileges which would allow them to force Nancy to apologize publicly. The British press labeled her speech "a major political indiscretion." A trades...
...LEAN HOSTESS AT PARTY IN COOL FRIENDSHIP GARDENS- EVENT DEDICATED TO GOOD FELLOWSHIP - Macy-Hopkins Wedding Main Topic...
...Newspaper of the Air (WMT and KRNT, 1:30 p.m., C.W.T.) and hear a quietly dramatized report of what plain Iowans, people known only to their neighbors, are doing to win the war. Listen has told the stories of Iowa's Peggy Conrardy, the first U.S.O. hostess in Alaska; of Iowa's Carl Anderson, "who is doing the same thing he's done [raise hogs], just a lot more of it"; of Russell J. Waller, Iowa newspaper editor who enlisted because "I thought you couldn't write editorials for two years, as I did, telling people...
Died. Nathalie Sedgwick Colby, 67, novelist (Green Forest, Black Stream), ex-wife of Bainbridge Colby, Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State; in Manhattan. Once a celebrated hostess to Washington society, she satirized the blue bloods in her writings, and Colby, when he sued for divorce in France, complained that she had satirized him. She later got their divorce in Reno...