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Married. Francis Archibald Kelhead Douglas, roth Marquess of Queensberry, 51, grandson of the man who supervised the formulation of the modern prize ring's rules (a boxing expert himself, the Marquess came to the U.S. last May to report the Louis-Conn bout for the London Daily Graphic); and Mimi Gore Chunn, 36, secretary of his wartime Queensberry All-Service Boxing Club; he for the third time, she for the second; in London, without the ring, which he had left at home...
Died. John Crichton-Stuart, fourth Marquess of Bute, 65, publicity-shy multimillionaire (an estimated $200 million), who in 1938 made probably the biggest real-estate sale in Empire history (half of the city of Cardiff, Wales, for about $32 million); of cerebral thrombosis; at Mountstuart, the Isle of Bute...
Died. Sir James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, 85, fourth Marquess of Salisbury; in London. Son of Queen Victoria's famed Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury, he was twice Lord Privy Seal, was noted for his two clashes with David Lloyd George (he recommended the rejection of his budget in 1909, and in 1922 headed a Conservative movement which overthrew Lloyd George's Government...
Divorced. Lord Burghley, 41, sports-loving heir to the Marquess of Exeter, winner of the 400-meter hurdles at the 1928 Olympics, who went out to Bermuda to become its youngest governor (1943-45); by Lady Mary Theresa Burghley, 42, sister of the Duchess of Gloucester; after 17 years of marriage, three children; in London...
...much a part of vanished history as the world of Queen Elizabeth." Hardy the Novelist is the first important study in its field since Edmund Blunden's Thomas Hardy. Composed of a series of lectures delivered at Oxford (Lord David, 44, youngest son of the Marquess of Salisbury, is a Fellow of New College), it lacks the polished style and brilliance that made Author Cecil's The Young Melbourne (TIME, Aug. 28, 1939) one of the finest biographies of the past decade...