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...call it off, then go on with their lives." -t - Sixty-nine-year-old Lady Decies, bejeweled grand dame of the international set, announced at starchy Newport (the scene of many of her fabulous social antics 30 years ago) that 74-year-old John Graham Hope De la Poer Beresford, Baron Decies, was suing her for divorce on grounds of desertion. Once she was the wife of chilly Henry Symes Lehr, Society's top fop and unofficial Newport jester, whom she delicately peeled in her book "King Lehr" and the Gilded Age. She wrote that she had never been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 18, 1941 | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

Aboard the Normandie docking in Manhattan, aboard again 22 hours later when she departed was John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, Fifth Baron Decies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 25, 1937 | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...from, drowning at Atlantic City, N. J., they have been constant companions. His first wife was Russian Princess Xenia Romanov. Married. Mrs. Henry Symes Lehr, 64, author last year of a sensational biography of her dead husband, "King Lehr" and the Gilded Age; and John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, Baron Decies, 70; in Paris. Divorced. Crooner Rudy Vallée, 34; by Mrs. Fay Webb Vallée, 29, daughter of the chief of police of Santa Monica, Calif.; after three years of litigation; in Los Angeles. Grounds: cruelty. Divorced. Alistair MacDonald. 37, architect son of Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 1, 1936 | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

Engaged. Mrs. Elizabeth Drexel Lehr, 64, daughter of the late, great Philadelphia Financier Joseph William Drexel, widow of famed Socialite Playboy Henry Symes Lehr, of whom she last year wrote a bitter, best-selling biography ("King Lehr" and the Gilded Age) ; and the Baron John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford Decies, 70, representative peer for Ireland in Great Britain, whose first wife was the late Vivien, daughter of George Jay Gould; in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 18, 1936 | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...Chrysler Motors, Ltd.. which was making handsome profits on its Chrysler franchise. Some of the stockholders in the London agency claimed that they had been persuaded to sell their stock under threats, that they had not received the true value of their shares. Led by Arnold de la Poer, former director of the British company, they sued for damages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Chrysler & Cricket | 11/25/1935 | See Source »

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