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Visitors to the New York World's Fair:* Countess Barbara Mutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow, Son Lance, Cousin Woolworth Donahue, who were soon scared away by gawking crowds; Russian Ambassador Constantine Oumanslcy; Jang Krishnan, one of four Borneo brothers who have six-inch tails; Herbert Hoover (said he: "There is no very explosive news about visiting an exposition."); John Pierpont Morgan, for the second time; Radioactor Orson Welles read the $1,000 World's Fair prize poem by 23-year-old Smith Graduate Pearl Levison. Sample...
...issue of March 13, under the heading People on p. 62, TIME implied that the Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow appeared before an English court & renounced the custody of her young son to ensure her Danish divorce going through...
...ensure her Danish divorce going through next year without further fuss, Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow finally agreed in Great Britain's High Court of Justice to give her husband, Count Court, "custody, care and superintendence" of their 2½year-old son, Lance until he is 21. Countess Babs will entertain her son on periodic visits. The rest of the time, she will have...
...gondola owned by the late Prince Alexis Mdivani was auctioned off in Venice. Price: $80. Purchaser: the Prince's sister, Señora José Maria Sert, who overbid a gondolier who wanted to use it as a taxi. Mdivani's onetime wife, Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow, was loafing at nearby Lido...
...Count and Countess* Court Haugwitz-Reventlow decided last week to reconcile themselves to their position as members of the royal family of the press. Instead of forcing reporters to scale fences and bore peepholes for news of the royal ructions (TIME, July 4), they graciously issued a stately circular through their London solicitors, announcing that "all matters in dispute between them have been amicably settled." Items: they will file a deed of separation enabling them to be divorced in 18 months; two-year-old Son Lance will be in the charge of his mother as a child, of his father...