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...pushing beyond traditional sterling markets into such U.S. ventures as a $5,000,000 partnership in Wall Street's Laidlaw & Co., a $20 million share in Manhattan's Pan Am Building, and a brisk, $70 million annual trade in British car imports; of a heart attack; in Knebworth, England...
Died. Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton, second Earl of Lytton, 71, diplomat, grandson of Novelist Bulwer-Lytton (The Last Days of Pompeii); of a heart attack; in Knebworth, Hertfordshire, England. Lord Lytton, whose father as Viceroy proclaimed Queen Victoria Empress of India, was Viceroy himself for four months in 1925 and headed the League of Nations' futile 1932 peace mission to Manchuria...
...glaring modern exception was Author A. S. M. Hutchinson, who five years ago let himself go all swimmy in print over the nursery innocence of his infant boy (The Book of Simon, TIME, Dec. 8, 1930). Last week Antony gave readers a better example of paternal pride. But Antony Knebworth will never reproach his noble author for saying fatherly things about him, because Antony is a posthumous biography. Antony was killed in an airplane crash in 1933, when...
...Antony Knebworth's lines were cast in pleasant places. He was born the eldest son of the Earl of Lytton, in a pre-War England that might well have seemed his family's garden. His godfather, Edward VII, confirmed the prestige of his birth; his fairy godmothers gave him health, wealth, happiness. Sargent made a drawing of him as a six-year-old. He soon delighted his parents by giving precocious signs of being a sportsman. At the age of 8 he took a 7½-hr. ski trip in Switzerland with his father, successfully negotiating...
Like many another British nobleman hard pressed by taxes and unable to rent his estate, the Earl of Lytton closed his turreted Tudor castle at Knebworth, Hertfordshire. Said he: "For years I have been trying to let it in vain. I cannot afford to live in it longer. It is, of course, a grief to leave our ancestral home in this way, but there is no alternative. They are all going...