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...President's Daughter." In Federal court in Toledo appeared Nan Britton to press her claim to the illicit love of the 29th President of the U. S. With her was her prim and mannerly 12-year-old daughter Elizabeth Ann whom she presented to the world in her book, The President's Daughter (1927) as the bastard of President Harding, conceived in the Senate Office Building. In 1928 one Joseph de Barthe. now dead, wrote and published a thin little book entitled The Answer to "The President's Daughter" in which he defended President Harding...
When Victor Nave, window washer, crawled out to do a tenth-story window of San Francisco's Rochester building one day last week, he found a falcon's nest on an upper ledge. A thorough cleaning nan, he swept it away. Down plunged sticks, straw and some squeaking nestlings. Down, too, with beak and talons at Victor Nave's face plunged the mother hawk, her mate hovering near with angry cries. Victor Nave, his face streaming blood, clung to the window ledge as the birds dashed at him again & again. At last he loosed his hold, steadied...
...Nan Duces (Gerard Smith, Cyril Harrison, Lieut. McDonald Jones): the National Indoor Polo championship, beating the Optimists (Raymond Guest, Winston Guest, Stewart Iglehart) 8 to 5 in a rough, fast game in Manhattan in which Winston Guest, outdoor internationalist, scored six goals, two of which were wiped out by fouls...
...radical propagandist, to lecture on Communism in his East Orange, N. J. home but the meeting was thwarted by police. In 1918 he converted his home into a hospital for wounded soldiers, cared for 1,000 in three years. Last year in Manhattan, he entertained at a large dinner Nan Britton and her ("The President's") daughter...
Scene: The drawing room of the late Queen Anne ("Brandy Nan") in St. James's Palace, into which the London Naval Conference moved last winter after being opened by His Majesty in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords and into which the Indian Round Table Conference moved last week, having also been opened by George V fortnight ago in the Royal Gallery (TIME...