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...glass eyes of the slightly moth-eaten stuffed bear on the staircase of London's St. James's Club should have bugged out last week. The ghost of suavely arrogant, egg-domed ex-Member George Nathaniel, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston and British Foreign Secretary of the 1920s, must have shivered in its shroud. Founded in 1757, St. James's is famed for its claret, its caricatures by Sir Joshua Reynolds and the exclusiveness of its membership, mostly confined to diplomats from the topmost social drawer. A Tsarist prince once lost ?10,000 in its card rooms. Last...
...steps of an old brownstone house in lower Manhattan marched a businesslike group of ten men. One of them rang the bell. From inside the house, Dr. Nathaniel Collins took one look, leaped through a window, climbed over a fence, and scrambled into a neighbor's cellar. At the doctor's alarm, three women in nightgowns ran screaming into the hall, trying to find the fire escape. It was obvious to everybody that the house was raided...
...NATHANIEL FISCHLER Palmyra...
Married. Dancer Paul Nathaniel Saltonstall Draper, son of Novelist Muriel Draper, great-grandson of the late, great Publisher Charles Anderson Dana; and Ballet Dancer Heidi Vosseler; in Rio de Janeiro...
...Once again choosing a railroader to direct its affairs, Western Union elected Albert Nathaniel Williams, president of the Lehigh Valley, as successor to ex-Railroader Roy Barton White, who has knocked off the "ex" by accepting the presidency of Baltimore & Ohio. A rodman at 16 and a graduate of Sheffield Scientific School, Williams takes over Western Union at a time when a merger with Postal has been verbally approved by all interested parties except labor and Western Union...