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Engaged. Nedenia Marjorie ("Deenie") Hutton, 22, who will inherit a fraction of her mother's General Foods (JellO, Post, Toasties, a shopping list of others) fortune, wartime USOverseas entertainer and stepdaughter of Joseph E. (Mission to Moscow) Davies, onetime U.S. ambassador to Russia; and Stanley Rumbough Jr., 25, Colgate soap heir and wartime Marine fighter pilot; in Manhattan...
...rash of newspaper rumors that he was stepping down from the Tory leadership. Already Party quidnuncs were speculating about his heirs. His great & good friend Anthony Eden would deputise for him-with his ex-friend Lord Beaverbrook's open disapproval. And there were others in the field to inherit the Churchill political estate, if it should be probated...
...Regrets is no guide to the tortuous complexities of Indian politics. Nor is it even Gandhi propaganda. British imperialists may read it without risk of apoplexy. But for most westerners, these gentle reminiscences will help to bring alive the sensitive, ascetic man of dreams and action who will probably inherit Gandhi's sainted khadi during modern India's most crucial years...
...turn them out neck and crop if he thinks he can better his temper or his home thereby. . . ." Churchill found few differences between the Conservative and Liberal Parties ("There is scarcely a Liberal sentiment which animated the great Liberal leaders of the past which we do not inherit and defend...
General Dwight D. ("Ike") Eisenhower, responding to an appeal for blood donations, stood in line with other volunteers, gave his pint. As he was leaving, a soldier recognized him, cracked: "Hey, that would be the blood to get." Said Ike: "If you do, I hope you don't inherit my bad disposition...