Word: scions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 30, onetime husband of Cinemactress Joan Crawford; and Mary Lee Epling Hartford, 28, onetime wife of Chain-Store Scion (A & P) George Huntington Hartford; in Westwood. Calif. Best man: Douglas Fairbanks...
From Oregon to Pennsylvania, from Rhode Island's pipe-smoking scion William H. Vanderbilt to Minnesota's boyish Harold Stassen, keynote of the gubernatorial inaugurations popping over the land last week was the return of Republicanism-epitomized by Wisconsin's "hardheaded" Julius Peter Heil. But in one State the political pendulum swung far to the Left. That was moonkissed California where Culbert Levy Olson, 62, started his State's first Democratic administration in 44 years. Governor Olson celebrated by pardoning the most famed prisoner...
Unlike these three old-fashioned rousers, Royal Regiment, by Gilbert Frankau (Dutton, $2.50), is as modern as gas masks for babies. Laid in 1936-37, it tells what happens when Major "Rusty" Rockingham, bachelor scion of an aristocratic British military family, falls in love with the dazzling American wife of his hardbitten colonel. Nothing happens: at the last moment both Rockingham and Camilla renounce their honorable passion for the greater honor of Empire. The Wally Simpson case, which breaks simultaneously, makes a well-pointed contrast...
Born. To Marshall Field III, 45, Chicago department store scion; and his third wife, Ruth Pruyn Phipps Field, 32; a daughter; in Manhattan. The baby (their second, her fourth, his fifth) was expected to become an aunt shortly, since her half-sister, Mrs. Anthony A. Bliss. 21, was due to become a mother...
...Democrat, decided to take the job. Since Mexicans liked his fluent Spanish and to solid citizens a Kleberg was a Kleberg, he had little trouble. This year he won his fifth nomination with practiced ease over a Townsend Planner and a crusading newspaperman who criticized him as a scion of autocracy. He did not deign to mention either of them...