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Married. Virginia Middleton French, sister of Mrs. John Jacob Astor; and William Force Dick, son of the late Madeleine Force Astor Dick; in Manhattan. The bride's father is Francis Ormond French, blue-blood maverick who worked in 1923 as a cab driver, applied...
Died. Amos Tuck French Sr., 78, wealthy social leader at Newport and Tuxedo Park in the early 1900s; in Chester, N.H. His offspring attracted attention when: in 1911 daughter Julia Steele French eloped with the family chauffeur; in 1923 son Francis Ormond French (whose daughter, Ellen, married John Jacob Astor in 1934) became a cab driver, in 1938 applied for a WPA job. Left. By the late Simon Guggenheim, copper tycoon: to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the bulk of his estate, not yet estimated; to his widow, Olga Hirsh Guggenheim, a $100,000 annuity from...
Pianist Humby's chief concern in the U.S. is raising money for London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, in which her second brother is chief surgeon. Another concern is broadcasting to Britain by short wave. Pianist Humby hopes that last week's CBS program was heard by her mother, a night rescue worker in London. Miss Humby does not yet know whether her earlier broadcast was picked up where it was aimed-the aircraft carrier Illustrious, whose commander at that time was her brother...
Official announcement of the signing of De Ormond "Tuss" McLaughry as head football coach at Dartmouth came late yesterday from Hanover. McLaughry thus concludes 15 years as head coach at Brown, succeeding his close friend Earl "Red" Blaik...
...Ormond concluded that a dull child may be "every bit as imaginative" as a brighter one, has certain advantages as a poet: 1) because he has read less, his poetry is innocent of cliches; 2) because his reactions are more primitive ("He is more apt to be a jitterbug"), his poetry has rhythm...