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Every two years for the last three decades, persons have been transformed into Personages or continued as the latter by the meticulous editorial staff of Albert Nelson Marquis of Chicago, publisher of Who's Who in America. Last week the 16th edition of Who's Who issued from the bindery...
Physicians told the Marquis Marie Paul Ernest Boniface de Castellane ("Count Boni"), onetime husband of the onetime Anna Gould who became later the Marquise de Talleyrand-Perigord & Duchess de Sagan, that his paralysis would end with death. Two weeks ago he bade come to his bedside at a set hour many friends, a priest. From his friends he received adieus, from the priest the church's last rites. Then he waited for Death...
†Though that inveterate attender of revolutions, the Marquis de La Fayette, was one of its leaders, the real hero of the Revolution of 1830 was a 14-year-old ragamuffin who, unarmed, charged the blazing muskets of the royal grenadiers with the stirring cry: ''Comrades, let me...
Into the capacious lap of Yale ("Mother of Men") fell yet another rich gift last week. In honor of his wife Mabel, sister of the late Papal Marquis Nicholas Frederic Brady, and on the occasion of their 20th wedding anniversary, onetime alien property custodian (now chemical tycoon) Francis Patrick Garvan...
Genial but punctilious M. le Marquis de Dampierre prepared to be Lion Guest at festivities staged by the Thomas Jeffer son Memorial Foundation. Modest, the marquis would never boast that his family is more ancient than the Chambruns, that he himself is a distinguished authority on economics, that it was...