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...employed him as private secretary, equerry and Keeper of the Privy Purse, and in the last year of his life (1935) he was rewarded with a peerage. Ponsonby could speak bluntly or subtly to all kinds of men, and he could ride a horse as smartly as he could snub an upstart. But he was no stick; he dreamed of writing film scripts and was "always interested in the possibility of raising King John's treasure from the Wash...
Died. Andrew Jackson Higgins, 65, rough & ready boss of Higgins, Inc., designers and makers of the snub-nosed landing craft that saw service in every theater of World War II; of complications resulting from stomach ulcers; in New Orleans. Bluff, tough "A.J." personally supervised every phase of his business, posted a sign in the plant: "Any body caught stealing tools from this yard won't get fired-he'll go to the hospital . . . A.J.H." With World War II, Higgins skyrocketed with war orders to an annual volume of $120 million...
London's gossips were hot on the scent of a royal snub. "You notice the Duke of Gloucester wasn't there," said one. "And there wasn't a single member of the royal family in the wedding picture," added another, "except, of course, the Princess Royal, and she had to be-being the groom's mother." "Margaret didn't even bother to wear a new dress," sniffed a third, pointing out (correctly) that the Princess' grey lace had made its debut at Ascot a month before...
...Mohammed Baccouche, 69, who proudly wears the cross of a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor. It was a surprising victory for De Hautecloque. In Tunis, which is normally noisy at night, a rigid curfew kept things quiet except for the barking of dogs and the rumble of snub-nosed Renault riot cars patrolling the streets...
...Surprise Snub. Last year, when oil was struck in Williston Basin, Simon took a direct hand in the railroad. He used Ohio Match's voting power to elect himself to Northern Pacific's board of directors, and began making his presence felt. Simon insisted that Northern Pacific's haphazard way of handling its oil leases be improved, got the board to hire Dallas' famed geologist E. De Golyer (TIME, March 24) to survey the railroad's oil lands, and brought in Standard Oil Co. of California's former assistant vice president LeRoy Hines...