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Last week the court awarded the claimants ?14,700 salvage money: ?2,000 of it to Skipper Hawkins; ?1,000 to the estate of Joe Boyle. Another ?1,000 went to 26-year-old Oswald Ross Preston, U. S. volunteer to the R. A. F., now on duty with the Eagle Squadron, because he played a "magnificent" part when the battle started. To his prize money the crew added the tattered red ensign of the San Demetrio, never hauled down till she reached the Clyde...
...Preston D. Carter, Detroit, Mich...
...HART PRESTON...
...countrymen were just as thrilled as she. Selected to lead a reception committee up the yacht's gangplank, Mrs. Jessie Byron, daughter of Florida's Governor Frederick Preston Cone, gasped: "No. 1, dear me, I can't stand it." She faded back into second place and let Banker Percy Rivington Pyne II of New York lead the way. Between double lines of dark-spectacled police the Duke and Duchess stepped down the gangplank, rode off through the packed streets of Miami. The Duchess wore a two-piece ensemble of dull navy crepe, hip-length coat...
...secretary who, at 37, after her employer's wife died, finally married her 70-year-old boss not long before his death is the Dowager Marchioness of Reading. Last week this indomitable peeress, who heads today the British Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defense, announced at Preston in Lancashire an idea as practical as the dictaphone...