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Nancy Oakes de Marigny, whom tragedy once made a brightly lit public figure, made a photogenic reappearance (see cut) in happier circumstances. Occasion: a whopping coming-out party for sister Shirley. Scene: Nassau in the Bahamas, where wealthy Sir Harry Oakes, the girls' father, was mysteriously murdered in 1943. Out of the picture: Nancy's estranged husband, Playboy Count Alfred de Marigny (who was charged with the murder but acquitted), last heard from in Canada, where he wrote his amatory memoirs (TIME, April...
...revolutionary and intricate word maneuvers, recently climaxed by the formation of 60 letters in one seven minute session, soon spread to other colleges. The 1936 demonstration in Princeton was so effective that Tiger Alumni blushed with shame at the inadequacies of the Nassau musicians and immediately raised $1,000 for their band...
...destroys a chickcharney's home; so when young Chamberlain insisted on cutting down a certain tree to build a railroad across his farm, the wise Andros natives refused to do it. "Boss man, he lookin' for trouble," they said. Chamberlain hired a crew from Nassau and cut down the tree anyhow. Soon after, of course, his farm failed...
Neville Chamberlain went back to England then, and many years later an Andros native, who had been on hand at the chopping, dropped over to Nassau and learned that Britain was at war and Chamberlain Prime Minister. "We gwine lost dat war," said Old Mose. "Chickcharneys doan lak dat man." And for a while it seemed he was right...
Chief Boston's Varsity wrestlers took four out of eight bouts from the Tigers of Nassau but nevertheless last their third straight match of the season by the score of 16 to 14 because two Princetonians pinned their men while there was only one Crimson fall...