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...days earlier Mrs. Tate was silenced by repeated cries of "Order! Order!" when she attempted to make a scandal out of the fact that three British M. P.s recently arrived in North America. These are: the Duke of Windsor's onetime flying instructor, Captain Alexander Stratford Cunningham-Reid, who gets $50,000 a year for life from a former wife whom he divorced for adultery; onetime subway engineer Captain Leonard Frank Plugge, who after a nouveau-riche success with International Broadcasting Co. boasted, "I often compare myself to Clive of India-he created a great thing, so have...
...House of Commons, irate Mrs. Tate implied that His Majesty's Government should not have let these three M. P.s go overseas during the present crisis, and she did not feel any better when it came out that Captain Cunningham-Reid announced as his reason for asking an exit permit that he was going to handle Heiress Doris Duke Cromwell's refugee British tots...
Married. Sonja Henie, 30, chubby, figure-skating cinemactress, ice-revue star; and Sportsman Daniel Reid Topping, 29, tin-plate heir, principal stockholder of the Brooklyn Dodgers professional football team; she for the first time, he for the third; in Chicago. Choked Sonja: "I have never been so happy...
...Party must take Willkie or take a beating. All this was very well for ex-Democrat Willkie; what bred-in-the-bone Republicans wanted was some assurance that he at last was of the true faith. They got their assurance, Wendell Willkie got his accolade from smart, dynamic Helen Reid, whose New York Herald Tribune is a Republican bible. On the convention's fourth day, the Herald Tribune front-paged: "... A man of the people, a Democrat for many years, a Republican by choice, he seems to us to be heaven's gift. . . ." The Philadelphia Public Ledger...
...less conventional wire came to "Father Knickerbocker, care Ralph S. Foss or Howard Reid, Harvard Club," from Charles H. Watkins '09, chairman of the entertainment committee of Boston's Harvard Club. It read: "2 Aprosoxuals, 5 auhedonists, 4 serendiptists, total 11, arrive at Pennsylvania Junction nine five. Have Herediah harness roans to four-seated surrey to meet us . . . your local constable might be helpful because several flips already consumed at this early hour. Prepare warming pans to get dampness out of beds. We bring our own night pails." A welcoming committee 100 strong went to the station to meet...