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...known portrait." There is a quite authentic and well-known "Portrait of Henry VIII as a Child" [see cut) which antedates the portrait in question by some 15 years. The childhood portrait, made about 1494 by an unknown artist, has in recent years belonged to the collection of the Verney family at Rhianva, Anglesey, England. It shows that even as a child of four, Henry displayed that heavy jowl and petulant mouth which Holbein the Younger was later to immortalize on canvas. FRANKLIN M. WRIGHT Ithaca...
...later, when he got into the textile business as Washington representative for New Hampshire's big Verney Mills, Inc., his foot slipped. The U.S. Government indicted him, Verney Mills, its president, Gilbert Verney, and two other officials for a series of black-market dealings. By buying yard goods from the mills and selling them at 30#162; to 42? over ceiling prices, Monroe had cleaned up $150,000. Charges against Gilbert Verney were dismissed. The other officials were acquitted. But Monroe, convicted on 30 counts by a Manhattan jury, was sentenced last week to two years in jail, fined...
Instead of her previous nine ladies-in-waiting, Her Majesty will have five at Marlborough House. She takes with her Amelo, the French onetime No. 2 chef at Buckingham Palace; her principal chauffeur; and of course faithful Sir Harry Lloyd Verney, Treasurer and Private Secretary to the Queen...
Biography H. R. H., THE PRINCE OF WALES - Major F. E. Verney, M. C. - Doran ($3.50). The solid side of a socialarbiter...
...MOTHER DEAR" : THE EMPRESS MARIE OP RUSSIA AND HER TIMES-V. Poliakov ("Au-srur")-Appleton ($3.50). ²H. R. H.-Major F. E. Verney-Doran ($3.50). ¼³THE TOUR OF THE PRINCE OF WALES TO AFRICA AND SOUTH AMERICA-Ralph Deakin -Lippincott ($4.00). *His full title is instructive as a gazetteer of his eight million square miles of absolute domain: "The Orthodox and Pious and Christ-loving, the absolute Autocrat and Great Lord, Crowned and Elevated by God, Alexander Alexandrovitch, Emperoi and Autocrat of All the Russias, His Tsaric Majesty of Moscow, Kiev, Vladimir, Novgorod, Tsar of Kazan, Tsar...