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Divorced. "Prince" Alexis Mdivani, 31; by Barbara Hutton Mdivani, 22, Woolworth heiress ($20,000,000); in Reno. Next day she married Count Kurt von Haugwitz-Reventlow, 38, handsome second son of an old Danish family. Independently rich, the Count stands to inherit a trust fund of 3,500,000 kroner ($1,575,000), six castles and estates in Denmark and a vast estate in Upper Silesia, all good dairy producers...
...among his honorary pall bearers. But he left no will and his next of kin is his brother, Ito Matchabelli, who still lives in Leningrad and who by U. S. law will share his estate with Prince Matchabelli's sister and niece. By Soviet law no Russian may inherit private property. If Manhattan courts should award to Brother Ito one-third of the 60% of the common stock of Prince Matchabelli Inc. owned by Prince Georges, it would promptly be seized by the Soviet Cosmetic Trust, directed by the wife of Soviet Premier Molotov...
...Vegetarian, ardent prohibitionist (she poured her husband's valuable cellar into the gutter immediately after his death) and anti- tobacconist, she caused one great sensation in 1931 when she publicly announced that her granddaughter, Mrs. Beatrice ("Trixie") Van Rensselaer Henderson Wholean was a foundling, secretly adopted to inherit a $600,000 trust fund...
...censure is reserved. The "News" has long made every attempt to arouse student interest in public affairs. That battle is almost won. But interest is not enough-at least, not passive interest. We are determined to be an unmitigated nuisance in persecuting those that take ideas for granted, that inherit ideas, and have none of their own. In a swiftly changing world, where no principles, no matter how sacred, go unchallenged, where everything is wide awake and stirring, Yale can not be allowed to doze. Yale student thought must be in the very front rank and not half a century...
...Vienna last week there was talk of only one thing, that Archduke Otto, 21-year-old exiled pretender to the Austrian Throne, was about to inherit a greater fortune than any other man of 1934. For a week Duke Maximilian von Hohenberg, the assassination of whose father, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, set off the World War in 1914, had been conferring with onetime Chancellor Otto Ender about the restoration of Habsburg properties confiscated during revolution. Last week their plans were well under way. To Otto, as head of the house, will go Habsburg jewels and plate, Habsburg stockholdings, most of which...