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Died. Sir Victor Sassoon, 79, monocled Rothschild of the Orient and owner of one of Britain's finest racing stables; of a heart attack; at Cable Beach, Nassau. Financial chief of a famed British banking clan-and cousin to World War I's angriest young man, Poet Siegfried Sassoon-Sir Victor parlayed a fortune originally built in the opium trade into ownership of much of prewar Shanghai...
With pride, pomp and publicity, Princeton Alumnus ('30) Shelby Collum Davis got all set to give his alma mater $3,800,000. A rich New York investment banker, Davis, 52, proposed to endow Old Nassau with two new history chairs in honor of his late father (Princeton '86). But when Donor Davis arrived at the bank with a platoon of lawyers to wrap up the gift for happy Princeton President Robert F. Goheen. his big gesture collapsed. The money was not his to give...
Last week the Grand Duchess, now 65, took steps to ensure that the goodly inheritance of Luxembourg would go to her first son and rightful heir, Prince Jean Benoit Guillaume Marie Robert Louis Antoine Adolphe Marc d'Aviano de Nassau-Weiburg. Under an obscure 110-year-old article in the Luxembourg constitution, she swore in Prince Jean, 40, as Lieutenant of the Grand Duke. It bestows on him all the powers of the Grand Duchess as head of state, leaving Charlotte only the title-and presumably peace of mind that when she abdicates or dies, the title of Grand...
Married. Eunice Bailey Oakes, about 32, British-born beauty and the widow of William Pitt Oakes, whose father, Sir Harry Oakes, was mysteriously murdered in Nassau in 1943; and Robert David Lion Gardiner, fiftyish, longtime bachelor and owner of Gardiner's Island, a 3,300-acre tract off eastern Long Island that has been in the family since 1639 and that becomes the property of Yale if there are no Gardiner heirs; in New York City. An outpouring of diamond-studded society made it the winter's most glittering wedding...
When freestyler Jim Greist touched out Navy and Harvard for a first in the meet's closing race, the 400-yard medley relay, the men from Nassau went wild, and rightly so. A group of swimmers tossed Tiger coach Bob Clotworthy off the high board in jubilation...