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...Marquess of Reading?Foreign Secretary...
Married, Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 70, Marquess of Reading, onetime Viceroy of India; and Stella Charnaud, 37, his secretary; in London. In 1918 Lord Reading was special ambassador to the U. S. His first wife died...
Last week, according to dispatches, a "widely known ornithologist who desires to remain anonymous" apparently distrusted the word of Marquess & Earl. He bought St. Kilda to insure its remaining a sanctuary for sea fowl...
...summers ago two octogenarian Scots made a deal for the barren island of St. Kilda, among The Hebrides. Seller was Sir Reginald Macleod, 84, 24th chief of the clan, director of Shell Transport & Trading Co. Buyer was Archibald Kennedy, Marquess of Ailsa. Last summer the Marquess removed St. Kilda's 35 tenants, their cattle and a few sheep to Ayrshire where he owns 76,000 acres. Left behind were wild sheep, seamews and puffins. Declared the Marquess' heir, Archibald Kennedy, Earl of Cassillis: "My father and I will never again permit the island to be settled' (TIME...
...phase, too, of Britain's military aviation is suffering evil days. Last fortnight brought the death of famed speed flyer Flight Lieut. Henry Richard Danvers Waghorn, 41st pilot of the Royal Air Force to die by crash since the first of the year. In London last week the Marquess of Donegall charged that Lieut. Waghorn and many another R. A. F. flyer would be alive today but for the "obsolete" type of parachute issued by the Air Ministry. This 'chute, he said, is not guaranteed to open under 800 or 1,000 ft. But Lord Donegall made...