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...spectators patted their hands in gentle applause. The car stopped at the great center doorway of the Parliament Building and out stepped Alexander Frederick Augustus William Alfred George Cambridge, first Earl of Athlone, and his wife, the Princess Alice. Athlone. for five years the representative in Canada of his nephew George VI, was on his way to perform for the last time the most impressive of a Canadian Governor General's functions-the formal opening of a session of Parliament...
Suffering from exhaustion, nervousness and a chronic skin disease, she has kept to herself, spending much of her time in a shrubbery-screened garden. With her are her nephew and niece, L. K. Kung and Mrs. Rosamond Chen, children of Dr. H. H. Kung, China's onetime Minister of Finance. She has four servants. Sometimes there are visitors-old American and Chinese friends, classmates from her days at Wellesley College...
When Antenor Patiño married, the son of Bolivia's tin tycoon became the husband of one of the best-dressed women in Europe: the stately Cristina, daughter of the Duke and Duchess de Durcal. He also became the nephew-in-law of Spain's late King Alfonso XIII...
...chief foreign correspondent, Cyrus Leo Sulzberger II, a star in his own right despite the fact that he is Publisher Sulzberger's nephew, took up residence in Paris...
...most of the debt from its new building, even to prosper with the tide of Bay Area war money. But ruddy, O'C.M. President Joseph V. Costello, who knew lean days in prewar San Francisco, decided to sell out. Reason: in his 60s, President Costello has only one nephew who is interested in the business. Said a competitor: "This was a good time to sell. It's just one of those deals where the family finally runs out of children...