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...retire from politics, devote himself to fishing and duck raising on his 2,000 Northumberland acres. He is bitterly attacked in Lloyd George's memoirs, published on the day of his death.* Died. Elinor Medill Patterson, 78, daughter of the Chicago Tribune's founder, Joseph Medill; relict of its onetime editor, Robert Wilson Patterson; aunt of its present publisher, Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick; mother of President Joseph Medill Patterson of the New York Daily News and of Editor Eleanor Medill Patterson of the Washington Herald; of a heart attack; after long illness; in Chicago. Died. Clay Meredith Greene...
...think things over and spend the rest of the day laughing and laughing and laughing." Up to him stepped a bibulous Bohemian stared in his face, remarked: "Did anyone ever tell you how much you look like that awful guy, Hoover?" To a Manhattan newshawk Actress Dorothy Cheston-Bennett, relict of Novelist Enoch Arnold Bennett (TIME, June 1), exclaimed: "Did you ever think about gland conditioning? And how soon it may be within our power to choose our character as we choose our clothes? Of course, its depressing to think that we women may choose them with as much obedience...
Married. Marmaduke Furness, ist Viscount Furness, 49, British shipbuilding tycoon; and Enid Lindeman Cameron Cavendish, 39, modish Australian-born relict of the late Brigadier-General Frederick W. L. S. H. Cavendish; in London, few days after Lord Furness was divorced for misconduct by his second wife. Thelma Morgan Converse Furness, onetime Manhattan socialite beauty, onetime cinemactress...
...Onwentsia Club, Lake Forest, Ill., Mrs. Edward Foster Swift, relict of the meat packer, gave a Swift family golf tournament, for married members only. Husbands & wives played together. Play was over nine holes; each pair was allowed a handicap, combined net score only to count. Couples paid $10 to play, $20 not to play. Among the entries were the Theodore Philip Swifts, the Edward Swift Juniors, the Charles Henry Swifts. The George Swifts, the Charles Henry Swifts did not play, paid their $20 fines. Prizes were $30 in cash, a silver...
Lolita Sheldon Armour, relict of Meat-Packer Jonathan Ogden Armour, paid $1,000,000 cash* to the estate of Ethel Field Beatty, Countess Beatty, daughter of Marshall Field, for a small (53.2 x 150.5 ft.) lot on the northeast corner of Chicago's State & Madison Streets, "world's busiest corner." Bought t»y Marshall Field in 1876 for $53,390, now part of the site of a department store, it returns $60,000 annually, is assessed...