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Died. George Marquis Sunday, 40, son of famed Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday; of injuries suffered last fortnight when he jumped or fell from a window of his fourth-floor apartment; in San Francisco.
A fire on the speedboat of U.S.-born Raymond Patenôtre, French UnderSecretary of National Economy, forced him and 15 guests to pump fire extinguishers frantically, then leap into the Mediterranean. Last to leap was 68-year-old Lady Mendl (onetime Elsie de Wolfe, famed interior decorator), who obeyed...
To make an after-dinner speech at a banquet of the United Ancient Order of Druids (British social order) one sweltering London night up rose walrus-mustached, bespectacled Charles Richard John ("Sunny") Spencer-Churchill, Duke of Marlborough (Baron Spencer, Earl of Sunderland, Baron Churchill, Earl of Marlborough, Marquis of Blandford...
First to arrive was Brother David, the oldest and shaggiest. At that time Gloria Swanson had just married a French Marquis. Pouting blonde Mae Murray, then at the height of her career, decided that she too could afford a title. She took as her fourth husband Prince David Mdivani. With...
No commodity, however, held so much hope for any one man as tin did for Simon I. Patino. Starting a poor native of the frozen mountains of Bolivia, he has wangled himself power and untold millions out of the tin mines in the mountains. Today he lives in a gilded...