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...this magnum opus, there were old snapshots and paintings, an album of "The Belles of Our Time," whose 13 beauties included Mrs. Dandridge Spotswood (1908), later the Baroness Eugene de Rothschild; Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson modeling for her husband's "Gibson Girl" (1896); Jennie Jerome, mother of Winston Churchill (1906). There was also a tour of Bohemias (homegrown and foreign) that wound up in a lush wilderness of fashion, liquor and perfume ads. Editor Bull's dollar-a-copy production number was certain to sit well where Town & Country is read: in paneled libraries, and under the dryers...
...Died. Baroness Eugene ("Kitty") de Rothschild, 61, famed beauty of pre-World War I Vienna's glittering court society, close friend of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, whose titled third husband is a member of the Austrian branch of the international banking family; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Glen Cove...
...Turks and self-government through most (the Arabs now say all) of the Middle East. At the same time Britain sought to rouse world Jewry (including German Jews) to support the Allied cause and weaken Germany. In his famous Declaration, Foreign Secretary Arthur (later Lord) Balfour informed Lord Rothschild, the prominent British Zionist, that "His Majesty's Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a National Home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object." Britain's League of Nations mandate over Palestine incorporated this pledge. From...
Married. Baron Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 35, head of the British branch of the great banking family, who forsook finance to become a Cambridge don; and Teresa Georgina Mayor, O.B.E., 30; he for the second time, she for the first; in London...
Married. Baron Louis de Rothschild, 64, polo-playing former president of the Kreditanstalt, one-year Gestapo prisoner after Hitler's Anschluss; and Countess Hilda Auersperg, 44, onetime Austrian who became an American citizen; he for the first time, she for the third; in Locust Valley...