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...Bannister told the Salvation Army worker that it was his by her daughter Marie, but he declined to contribute. This boom-time for the Bannisters ended sharply when the railway worker expressed a desire for a long, close look at his child, whom he thought of by now as Thyra Milton Trites...
Astrid Sofia Louisa Thyra her name was, and she was 29. Her father, the Duke of Yastergotland, is brother of King Gustaf of Sweden; her mother is sister to Christian of Denmark and Haakon of Norway. One great aunt was Alexandra of Britain, another Dagmar, Tsarina of Russia. But no Queen ever lived more simply. All Brussels had seen Astrid time & time again wheeling her own baby carriage along the boulevards on a Sunday morning. Young Leopold as Crown Prince had gone several times to Stockholm to propose to her, traveling in a third-class coach to keep his incognito...
...themselves editors. Under that regime many a now-famed author (examples: James Joyce, Lord Dunsany) was given his first U. S. audience. Others who were early recognized, if not actually discovered by Mencken & Nathan's Smart Set: Ruth Suckow, Sherwood Anderson. Ben Hecht, Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, Thyra Samter Winslow, Barry Benefield. Christopher Darlington Morley...
...There the Storting suspended all parliamentary business while Oslo's Hambro, the nation's stern speaker, led a barking Norwegian cheer. Appropriately enough; Norsk Kron Prins Olav was not there to hear. With gallant stealth he had slipped off to Stockholm and Sveriges Princessa Märtha Sofia Lovisa Dagmar Thyra...
Married. Mrs. Thyra Samter Winslow, short story writer, novelist (Picture Frames, Show Business, People Round the Corner), of Manhattan, to Nelson W. Hyde, engineer, of Kew Gardens, Long Island...