Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Born. To Mr. & Mrs. John Coldbrook Hanbury-Williams (she is the onetime Princess Zenaida Mihailovna Cantacuzene, great-granddaughter of Ulysses Simpson Grant); twin girls; at London.
Engaged. William H. Vanderbilt of Newport, Rhode Island State Senator, nephew of Capitalist Cornelius Vanderbilt III; and Miss Anne Gordon Colby, Foxcroft graduate, daughter of Everett Colby, onetime New Jersey State Senator; at Llewellyn Park, N. J.
Engaged. Ray Barbuti, U. S. Olympic middle-distance runner; and Marion Hicks, sister of Golfer Helen Hicks; at Hewlett, L. I.
Awarded. To Henry Waters Taft, brother of Chief Justice William Howard Taft; the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun; at a dinner of the Japan Society (Manhattan) of which he had been President seven years.
Elected. Samuel Insull Jr., son of Public Utilitarian Samuel Insull; to be vice-chairman of Middle West Utilities Corp., of which his father is board chairman; in Chicago.