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Died. Susan C. Whitney Dimock, 97, diamond-studded matriarch of Washington, D. C. society, sister of the late William Collins Whitney, who founded the Whitney fortune; in Bar Harbor...
Last week the dignified old matriarch of U. S. museums, Manhattan's Metropolitan, bestowed a grandmotherly kiss on the forehead of art's guttersnipe youngster, Walter Elias Disney. Everyone was pleased that the Metropolitan should accept a picture by Walt Disney's studio, and call him "a great historical figure in the development of American art." But many who saw the picture were surprised at the Metropolitan's choice...
Brenda Frazier at 17 is shapely, wide-eyed, with a striking shoulder length of blue black hair. Her grandfathers were a Chicago grain broker named Frank Pierce Frazier and Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor, a Canadian capitalist who used to manage the Bank of Montreal and whose Lady is social matriarch of Nassau. At eleven, she struck the Sunday supplements as the centre of a scandalous financial row between her divorced parents, each of whom sought to prove the other unfit to be her custodian. Fight and notoriety continued until her father died...
...himself a rapt worshipper of Wagner's music. The Ride of the Walküre is one of his favorite entrance marches for big State occasions. Frau Winifred Wagner, daughter-in-law of the late great composer and friend of the Realmleader, is Germany's musical matriarch. Wagner's Norse heroes, W70tan and Siegfried, have been converted by Official Seer Alfred Rosenberg into neo-pagan demigods...
...subservience, at any rate, is assured. The photograph, p. 24, of Matriarch Mary with Queen Elizabeth "well in hand" is the most expressive picture of the week. To see it is to understand at a glance the devious story of Edward's unprecedented behavior. In "most vulgar" American, or in any language, that expression on the Queen Mother's face spells "Meddlesome Interferiority." My only consolation is that TIME'S preview has cleared up much of the "Mystery of the Coronation." If Americans do not boycott the ceremonies, then they deserve the low opinion that Mary, churchy...