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...Patricia Plunkett a beauty kit. To Runner-Up Patricia Suydam (daughter of Realtor Hendrick Suydam & Mrs. Richard A. Cunningham) went a flacon of Hawaiian perfume. To Ridgeley Vermilye of Plainfield, N. J., well back in third place, went a new hat. Meanwhile, 1938 Glamor Girl Brenda Frazier, home from Nassau for Christmas, was seen as usual at Manhattan's La Conga in the morning's early hours. Her current escort is Cartoonist Curtis Arnoux Peters (Peter Arno), twice divorced...
...chapter here, will lead the Harvard delegation. Accompanying him are G. Robert Stange '41, vice president. David Fleischman '41, secretary, Paul Olum '40, Avram S. Goldstein '40, Irwin Ross '40, William Rossmore '40, Arthur Kinoy '41, Max D. Gaebler '41, John A. Rolabird, Jr. '49, Robert G. Nassau '48, Walter K. Rosen '42, Sidney Jackson '48, and Andrew E. Nice...
...Nassau Eyes House Plan...
...House of Nassau can trace its origin to 800, its members settling in the Lowlands from Germany in 1400. The Orange-Nassau line barely missed dying out with Wilhelmina's father, William III. William's first wife and two sons died one after the other. At 62 he married the 20-year-old Princess Emma, of Waldeck-Pyrmont, a small German State. Of that marriage the sole issue was Wilhelmina, born August 31, 1880. Repeal of the Salic Law forbidding female rulers allowed her to succeed to the throne...
Almost all the well-to-do families in The Netherlands have their East Indian securities, and not the least investor is the House of Orange-Nassau. Century ago King William I invested $1,600,000 in the East. Large profits accrued, the capital multiplied many times again. Wilhelmina, an astute business woman herself, is a large owner of tin mines, just as she has a moneyed finger in the pie of nearly every enterprise of magnitude in Holland. Her income was once estimated at $5,000,000 a year, making her by far the richest monarch of Europe...