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...life in Nairobi can be excessively dull. The Hon. Averill Furness, 23-year-old daughter of Viscount Furness, shipbuilding tycoon, and Andrew Rattray, her father's so-year-old professional hunter, found it so one evening last month as they finished dinner. Next morning, with a maid and a typist as the only witnesses, they were secretly married. Lord Furness was out in the bush hunting lions. To break the news to her father, Mrs. Rattray dispatched an airplane to his safari. Last week Lord Furness's wrathful roar resounded through the veldt...
...pound against this majority lost a pound for each seat that the National Government's majority went above 210, and it went to 557. Optimists who "bought" won fantastic sums as the Government's prodigious total swelled. For example a Miss Anne Simms, stock exchange typist, who bought one ?5 unit, won ?1,735 or over $6,000 on her $19.50 bet. For such bets Nov. 10 is settlement day. Numerous broker bankruptcies are expected...
...Recently hired by Publisher Hearst, Reporter Randolph strolled into the Hearst London Office, drawled, "I shall want a secretary and a typist," learned that reporters secretary themselves and type their...
...rapid typist and an efficient filing clerk up to last week was Miss Anne Tyrrell, socialite daughter of the British Ambassador at Paris, brought up to be useful to her father, William George Tyrrell, Baron Tyrrell of Avon. Last week she became famed as the first British bride to be married in Notre Dame de Paris in 372 years, the first, according to Cathedral records, since the wedding of Mary Queen of Scots...
...Virgin. Anni Rutz, awkward, homely, sweet-tempered daughter of a widowed candy shop proprietress, will play the Virgin this year. Anni is a typist in a saw mill, the first blonde to play Mary in the living memory of Oberammergau. No trouble has she had in fulfilling the obligation of the chosen Virgin to lead a seemly life. For a while it seemed that her younger, much prettier and lazier sister might receive the vote, but the Oberammergau electors are discerning men, not to be influenced by appearances...