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Died. Princess Henrietta Guerard Pignatelli, sixtyish, Bluffton, S.C. shopkeeper's daughter who became one of the wealthiest women in the U.S. by marrying a grocery fortune (A. & P.'s Edward V. Hartford, who left her $200 million when he died in 1922) and then became a princess by marrying Prince Guido Pignatelli in 1937; after long illness; in Wyckoff...
Recipient of a Radcliffe degree cum laude at today's exercises in Sanders will be small, sixtyish Mabel M. Brewerton of Brookline, who is completing this June the college course that she began in September...
Disturbed: the Rt. Rev. Geoffrey C. L. Lunt, sixtyish Bishop of Salisbury, in the middle of the night. A maid heard prowlers in the Cathedral yard, woke the bishop. He dashed out in pajamas and dressing gown, chased the villains over a high wall, hurried shivering back...
...only extraverted thing about Yeats is his clothes. Sixtyish, he generally appears in a grey suit with velvet lapels and sports an emerald stickpin in his wide black tie. When a reporter cornered him last week to ask a few questions, Yeats had an all-inclusive answer. "An artist's personality," he said, "should manifest itself in his work. Personally I have always resented any attempt to make copy out of my private life...
...Luckman got a bargain because the cosmetics business has looked none too pretty lately. (Sales have dropped so much that many a company has had to take back merchandise from retailers.) And after 30 years of hard work, Ayer's president and owner, Mrs. Lillian Sefton Thomas Dodge, sixtyish, had had enough...