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Richard Raymond Lehr...
Died. Lady Decies, 72, prominent socialite of the prewar Paris-New York set; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan. The daughter of Philadelphia Banker Joseph William Drexel, wealthy "Bessie" was a widow at 27, at 29 married Harry Symes Lehr, the Mauve Decade's "court jester" to U.S. Society. Under his tutelage she became the lush favorite of the Four Hundred, told much if not all in a bitter book ("King Lehr" and the Gilded Age) written after his death in 1929. Among the book's revelations: Lehr was a homosexual and had consented to marry only after...
...Congressman Inquires. Representative Paul W. Shafer (R., Mich.) stormed that the Selfridge situation "smelled to high heaven" and vowed to get to the bottom of it; he hinted that McRae might have been shot for learning of some irregularity. In Detroit U.S. Attorney John C. Lehr said he would ask indictment of at least 50 civilians involved in efforts to bribe Selfridge officials...
...international set, announced at starchy Newport (the scene of many of her fabulous social antics 30 years ago) that 74-year-old John Graham Hope De la Poer Beresford, Baron Decies, was suing her for divorce on grounds of desertion. Once she was the wife of chilly Henry Symes Lehr, Society's top fop and unofficial Newport jester, whom she delicately peeled in her book "King Lehr" and the Gilded Age. She wrote that she had never been happy with him; of her present husband, once remarked: "I married Decies so I could attend the coronation...
...Lehr's reference to monkeys was no figure of speech. One afternoon last month an anteater, a monkey and the editor of the News occupied the same office. This cozy spectacle did not confuse readers who dropped into the News office at Quarry Heights, the U.S. Army's headquarters in the Panama Canal Zone. Old friends of the editor, Master Sergeant Clay Doster, had no trouble whatever in identifying...