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...lives with her" and does not make him feel he is accepting "charity," firmly asserted the Member of Parliament. His wife, who ceased having him live with her in 1936 and tried to cancel a previous financial settlement, sat with averted eyes. So packjammed was the courtroom with Mayfair socialites that some emerged with torn coats...
Although Nuffield will be remembered when many a belted earl and many a British statesman are forgotten dust, Mayfair has been too inclined to dismiss his magnificent philanthropies as vulgar show of wealth. Last week, however, aristocrats could read in the Sunday Express about something they appreciated, Viscount Nuffield's ancestors...
...quiet dinner at pro-French Mr. Eden's house in Mayfair, and a luncheon with King George and Queen Elizabeth at which Mr. Eden was not present but Mr. Chamberlain was, gave M. Chautemps and M. Delbos further opportunities to make friends. On their departure for Paris, the House of Commons was told by the Prime Minister that "a preliminary examination was made of the colonial question in all its aspects. It was recognized that this question was not one that could be considered in isolation, and moreover would involve a number of other countries...
What it takes to be fashionable is what Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, 33-year-old son of a London coal & lumber merchant, possesses in a degree so extreme as to make plain people squirm. To the fastidious world of Mayfair, however, Photographer Beaton's delicate infusions of the cockeyed into the swank have long seemed divine. After a gala summer, including a trip to Cande to make exclusive portraits for Vogue of his friend the Duchess of Windsor and a visit to his friend Mrs. Harrison ("Best Dressed") Williams at her villa on Capri, slim Cecil Beaton...
Married. Winifred Birkin War,. London socialite, divorced wife of Rt. Hon. William Dudley Ward, onetime (1917-22) Vice-Chamberlain of the King's Household; to Marquis de Casa Maury, Cuban operator of a Mayfair cinemansion; in London. Mrs. Ward for years was the favorite dancing partner and friend of the Duke of Windsor, then Prince of Wales...