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...Treasury Department, looking for new ways to sell war bonds, tried tough talk to sell War Loan VI. Hattie Carnegie, Manhattan couturier, went the Treasury one better. In windows usually devoted to high-priced chichi escapism, Hattie Carnegie tried realism. Her shocker set off protests: one customer complained that after seeing the display, she was unable to eat her lunch at the superswank Colony Club...
Hattie Carnegie finally relented last week, closed a discreet curtain on the photographic blowup of limbless men, leaving only the papier-mâché model in the wheel chair to remind her customers of War Loan VI...
...Miner, 79, famed Canadian ornithologist, founder of a pioneer North American bird sanctuary in Kingsville, Ont. ; after a heart attack; in Kingsville. He clipped aluminum bands stamped with scriptural texts and his address on to birds' legs; received in 1943 the Order of the British Empire from George VI...
Henry, Duke of Gloucester, 44, shy, soldierly tallest Prince of the House of Windsor, got a double promotion from his older brother, King George VI, who made him a general in the British Army, an air chief marshal in the R.A.F...
Died. Princess Beatrice, 87, youngest, last-surviving of Queen Victoria's nine children, great-aunt of King George VI, mother of former Queen Victoria of Spain; in Balcombe, Sussex. Victoria's "precious little baby" married Prince Henry of Battenberg (later Englished to Mountbatten) at 28, after the. Prince agreed to become a British subject, and she to live close by the widowed Queen. At her husband's death, Beatrice succeeded him as Governor and Coroner of the Isle of Wight, permitted a deputy to conduct the inquests. In the tradition of royal British hobbyists, she played...