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Favorite book of James Alvan Macauley, president of Packard Motor Car Co. since 1916 and of the Automobile Manufacturers Association since 1928, is Lorna Doone. Last week Alvan Macauley (the "James" disappeared long ago) might have quoted another British author to the effect that "The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings." Some items contributing to Mr. Macauley's happiness...
...LORNA WILLIAMSON TALBOT...
Jockeying for the start of the first of six races for a "women's national sailing championship" off Cohasset, Mass. last week, Skipper Lorna Whittelsey of the Indian Harbor Yacht Club's crew had a piece of hard luck. Two of the other six boats in the race-sailed by crews from Bellport, L. I. and Cohasset-collided with her, sailing broad off when she was closehauled. The judges disqualified Bellport. An Edgartown boat won, sailed by Clara Dinsmore. In the afternoon, with airs so light that the 17-ft. Manchester one-design sloops were sometimes impossible...
...current issue of TIME under the heading Milestones, three out of nine notices of marriages refer to the bride as "one," as "George Hearst married one Lorna Pratt Velie; John Duval Dodge married one Dora McDonald Cline; and Prince Alfonso married one Edelmira Sampedro...
Married. George ("Fanny") Hearst, 29, fat eldest son of William Randolph Hearst: and one Lorna Pratt Velie; by California's Governor James Rolph Jr.; at the Hearst ranch in San Simeon, Calif. Last year Bridegroom Hearst was divorced by Mrs. Blanche Wilbur Hearst at Los Angeles...