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...Died. Narcissa Thome, 84, widow of Montgomery Ward Heir James Thorne, who spent her life creating a world-famed collection of miniature rooms precise in every detail, from the Lilliputian Toby jugs in a colonial kitchen to the diminutive replica of a Fragonard painting in a Louis XVI salon, sometimes spending thousands on a single setting; of a heart attack; in Chicago...
Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke...
Died. Julia Peabody Lewis Morris, 47, wife of Philadelphia Financier Effingham B. Morris Jr. (Girard Trust Co.); when a horse she was riding caught its knee on a fence in mid-jump, somersaulted onto her; near Narcissa...
...whole Spartan-boy-&-fox school of understatement. Kit has never forgiven his father, U. S. Tycoon Abbott, for his mother's death, for not accepting his own War bride until it was too late. His whole life is vowed to revenge. From Venice, where his sister Narcissa lives in anxious pomp with her noble Italian husband, Kit spins the cabled threads of a financial web in which to catch his father, bring him to his knees. Though details are left vague, his scheme is ripe for success except for money. This he gets at the last minute from...
General Herbert M. Lord, Director of the Bureau of the Budget, next addressed the meeting. He told five humorous stories: one about a Scotsman and an Irishman, one about a Negro and a Negress (Rufus and Narcissa), one about a Negro preacher with a fondness for long words, one about a fish too big to be true, one about a man who said that a church service "beat the devil." He also inaugurated the Loyal Order of Woodpeckers, whose members will dedicate themselves to performing small but frequent economies, and "whose persistent tapping away at waste will make cheerful music...