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...lobby of the White House Executive Offices in Washington, newshawks stopped chatty, Virginia-born Viscountess Astor, who had just come from a talk with the President, and asked for a "few choice words" on the abdication and marriage of the Duke of Windsor. Chatted the longtime Member of Parliament from Sutton Division, Plymouth: "They'll be very few and very choice, because I'm a politician...
Married. Ralph Heyward Isham, New York financier and one of the world's foremost authorities on Samuel Johnson and James Boswell; to Christine, Viscountess Churchill; in London. Expert Isham made his greatest find in Malahide Castle, Ireland, two months ago when he discovered in an old iron trunk Dr. Johnson's diary from 1765 to 1784 (TIME. April...
...nabbed in the act will get away with a gold butter plate worth $500. Next evening the British Foreign Office is dinner host to the King & Queen-biggest night of Foreign Secretary & Mrs. Anthony Eden's lives, although Foreign Undersecretary Viscount Cranborne, a Cecil, and his Viscountess are often house guests of Their Majesties. Next day, May 15, the Envoys of 53 States depart and on this day train accommodations to the Continent cannot possibly be secured by an ordinary visitor...
...reception was held. Last year the Hon. Lavinia won the Nottingham Junior Lawn Tennis Championship, next broke her collar bone riding in a point-to-point race. Last week her father, Lord Belper, delighted the happy pair with a wedding present of a fine brood mare, but knowing Viscount & Viscountess St. Davids bestowed the gift supreme: 24 volumes of the Blood Stock Breeders Review. In the friendly atmosphere of English tenantry toward their Duke no less than 94 ash trays and 61 lamps came in, along with the presents of Queen Mother Mary, King George & Queen Elizabeth, for as Burke...
...With the Viscountess was the general manager of her weekly magazine Time & Tide (no kin), Miss D. S. Stanhope. Its staff is 100% female, its regular contributors about equally divided as to sex, Bernard Shaw and the "Provincial Lady," Miss E. M. Delafield, sharing honors with Economist Sir Norman Angell and Novelist Rebecca West, Dramatist Sean O'Casey. "In England people have stopped reading Punch in favor of the New Yorker," said the publisher Viscountess, "and most intelligent English people read TIME every week, even though during recent months large sections have often been clipped...