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...House, Queen Mary was waiting, perfectly prepared, to curtsy before her. The Queen talked with her grandmother for half an hour, put in a call to Sandringham to her mother and sister, and went over the arrangements for the King's funeral with the Duke of Norfolk (Earl Marshal of England)* and the Earl of Clarendon (Lord Chamberlain). That night, while all Britain listened to Churchill's eloquent eulogy of her father, she rested...
Burr was class marshal at his 25th reunion and was the key figure in the fund raising for Soldiers Field. He was 93 and had been an investment banker until his retirement in 1942. A prominent philanthropic leader, Burr was director of the National Allied Relief Committee in New York and chairman of the Boston branch...
Self-effacing Field Marshal Alexander is a smooth politician ("90% of my job in the Mediterranean was politics"), a passable amateur oil painter and, at 60, still an avid outdoorsman (formerly football, track and cricket, now mostly shooting, skiing and fishing). He was born Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, the third son of the Fourth Earl of Caledon. After Harrow and Sandhurst, he wore "the brightest Sam Browne and boots in the British army," fought in World War I, served in India between the wars...
Massey, who succeeds Field Marshal Alexander (see FOREIGN NEWS), is clearly as suitable for the job as any British peer. Educated at the University of Toronto (of which he later became chancellor) and Oxford, he has had a notable career as educator, became the first Canadian Minister to the U.S. (1927-30), and served as High Commissioner to Great Britain...
Died. Kharloin Choibalsan, 56, Premier Marshal of the (Outer) Mongolian People's Republic, one of the Kremlin's hardiest puppets; of what Moscow insisted were "natural causes" (cancer of the kidney); in the Kremlin, Moscow...