Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pleased was the venerable statesman's much younger wife, the onetime Miss Helena Schilizzi of London, ambitious, vivacious heiress of a rich Greek. She, rumors told, supplies the motivation for her husband's latest grasp at Power...
Away from London, last week, sped heads of every important communications system in the British Empire. They were well pleased with themselves, for they had just agreed that, with the consent of the Dominion and Imperial Parliaments, they would merge all their services into a single, gigantic corporation. And they had guarded against internal wars between radio and cable factions. They had asked the government to keep the balance of power...
Died. Sir David Yule, 69, "richest Scotch merchant," widower parent of Miss Gladys Yule, 24, to whom he leaves 20 million pounds; at London. Son-in-law of the late Andrew Yule of Calcutta, India, Sir David prodigiously expanded the firm of Andrew Yule & Co., Ltd., and founded 80 adidtional firms in which he retained controlling interest. In 1926 he contributed largely to an unselfish syndicate of liberals who purchased the Daily Chronicle from David Lloyd George at a price which netted the Welshman $14,500,000 profit and under an agreement whereby Liberal Lloyd George still controls the policy...
...Magnate Beaverbrook appears in Gerhardi's new book, avowedly "pure and unmixed, except for the obvious extravaganza." But Beaver-brook's life has been so rich in extravaganza that the fictitious is not always obvious. Ottercove rides in a Winged Chariot, a comfortable limousine that darts down London streets or rises quietly into the air far above traffic and turmoil. He promises Protegé Dickon (Gerhardi himself in disguise) his greatest evening paper as wedding present, but reneges. He begets a son of Eva, whom he marries to get the better of her other lovers. Eva who inherits...
Tallulah Bankhead, red-headed daughter of the late U. S. Senator Bankhead, an actress with an ecstatic London following, was robbed for a moment of her gay and civilized exuberance by an event which was like a threatening whisper in the dark. A man had jumped off the steamship Rochambeau, at night, into the Atlantic Ocean. The steamship had turned around in her course and sent a lifeboat to find him in the black wilderness of waves. When found, the man, nervous, apologetic, was carried to the deck and helped through a crowd of frightened passengers to his stateroom...