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Last week, the debate concluded, the Marquess of Hartington repaired to the Chelsea Registry Office, accompanied by his best man, the Duke of Rutland. Both wore Guards' uniforms and snug Sam Brownes. Fifteen minutes later Kathleen Kennedy arrived in delphinium pink suede crepe, a short mink jacket and a little hat of pink & blue ostrich feathers. Lieut. Joseph Kennedy Jr., U.S.N.R., came to give his sister away...
...father's intense annoyance, Elizabeth's name has been linked in gossip columns with two genealogically suitable young Britons. They are Hugh Denis Charles Fitzroy, Earl of Euston. and Charles John Robert Manners. Duke of Rutland. Both are 25, Etonians. Cambridge men, junior officers in the Grenadier Guards (Elizabeth is their Colonel...
Died. Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale, 87, legendary last of an 18th-Century pattern - the swashbuckling, sporting peer; in Oakham, Rutland, England. A vigorous black sheep of one of Britain's noblest families, Lord Lonsdale was born at ugly, Gothic, ancestral Lowther Castle (described by myopic Wordsworth as "that majestic pile"), educated at Eton where he was flogged 32 times. He soon tired of this, joined a circus, toured Switzerland for a year and a half as an acrobat and trick rider, is said to have punched cows in Wyoming, explored Alaska, been either a bandit...
...Rutland, Vt., pop. 17,082. Rutland's 24 doctors are merely busy; the town's greatest need is for nurses for the local hospital. But the doctor shortage is acute in Vermont's rural areas, has had some tragic results-e.g., a young boy in one rural town recently died of acute appendicitis for lack of a doctor to diagnose his case. When Dr. Harry Leslie Frost of Pittsford died, he left thousands of patients in the town and surrounding mountains without medical care. The young physician in nearby Proctor, who is trying to cope with...
...Kans., pop. (in 1940) 13,188, (in 1943) 12,183. Emporia has no doctor shortage, because it has lost only five doctors to the services. The remaining 20 (two on the verge of retirement) are busier than usual because of the lack of doctors in outlying towns. As in Rutland, a shortage of nurses is developing-43 of the town's 49 student nurses are in the Government-subsidized Cadet Nurse Corps. TIME'S correspondent says that Kansas generally still has enough doctors. Even Wichita, which has boomed from 114,966 to 184,115, can make...