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...Third Act in Venice, readers might have found some ordinary, others downright unlikable. might have decided their story was a highly colored mess. Thanks to Author Thompson's restless skill, however, it emerges from dubious beginnings into tragic romance, a moral tale to melt a worldling. Francis Radnor, a "Sir" and a gentleman, but not as aristocratic as he looked, had enough money for his wants. His wants were to float about the world, now as a well-connected butterfly, now as an insect with a taste for carrion. In short, Sir Francis was a double-lifer...
...home of his friend Anthony Joseph Drexel Paul Jr. in swank Radnor, Pa. where he was spending the shank end of his holiday from Harvard, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. climbed into his La Salle coupe late one night last week, rolled off to a dance in Philadelphia. Just outside town he slambanged into a parked automobile, giving its driver several bruised ribs, a cut on the eye. Charged with assault and battery by automobile, the President's third son was allowed to proceed to his dance by taxicab. Next night he appeared in court to explain that...
Married. Charlotte Kelsey Dorrance, daughter of Campbell Soup Co.'s late, learned Founder-President Dr. John Thompson Dorrance, who left some $115,000,000 in trust to his widow and five children; and William Coxe Wright, tennist; in Radnor...
...piercing blue eyes and a cropped mustache, he keeps himself in as rigorous trim as when he was a locomotive mechanic in the Altoona shops. His big-toothed grin is familiar to all Pennsylvania's 115,000 employes. When at home (which is seldom) he lives simply in Radnor outside Philadelphia. He claims that his house is so furnished that he can put his feet up whenever he sits down. A railroad man to the core, he has only one automobile, a Cadillac which he turns in every August for a new model. His two younger sons take...
Philadelphia is not a slow town. It is big, rich, social. It drinks hard, plays hard. Especially on its socialite Main Line northwest of the city-in Radnor, Haverford, Merion, Ardmore, Bryn Mawr -where live the people who appear in the Sunday society supplements, is life regarded as a cocktail free to all who would drink. Such gay communities as socialite Philadelphia are ripe for tragedy. Last week tragedy appeared there...