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...evening papers, in the official catalog it appeared as "Palm Sunday A. D. 33." It received the sort of press notice generally reserved for the opera of Jacob Epstein: "childish and primitive," "a monstrosity suitable for Moscow." The cautious News Chronicle considered it "astounding." At Private View Day, Ermine, Viscountess Elibank (a Lady of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem) approached the painting and announced in the presence of several reporters, "I just can't bear...
...apple tree in the "Garden of Memory" at Himley Hall, Worcestershire. Just eight months ago a seven-year-old boy was buried in this garden. Cycling, he had been run over by a truck. Last week his mother was laid beside him. She, young and lovely Rosemary Millicent Viscountess Ednam, perished in the mysterious airplane crash in Kent fortnight ago when six Britons were killed. The card which H. R. H. sent with his pink & red mourning roses last week read: "With love from...
Died. Frederick Temple-Blackwood, Marquess of Dufferin & Ava; Rosemary Millicent Ward, Viscountess Ednam & Sir Edward Simons Ward; Mrs. Henrik Loeffler; Pilot George L. P. Henderson; Assistant Pilot John Shearing; when their airtaxi, returning to London from Mrs. Loeffler's houseparty at Le Touquet, exploded midair; at Meopham, Kent, England...
...Herbert Hoover sent her greetings. Lou Henry Hoover sent an armful of roses. Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York regretted that he could not attend the celebrations but his wife presided at one of the meetings. Mrs. Coolidge sent a telegram. So did Viscountess Astor of England and Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick of Illinois. Henry Waters Taft, head of the Army's New York City Advisory Board, helped Commander Booth dedicate a new building in Manhattan, the Centennial Memorial Temple, costing $2,500,000. Financial Broadway cast ticker tape on a parade of Salvationists. John Philip Sousa composed...
Decision by Mr. Ford to give Irish prosperity this potent boost was taken on the famed junket to England (TIME, April 23, 1928), during which King George and Queen Mary put etiquette in their royal pockets and went to the house of Viscountess Astor, where they were in effect presented to Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ford. Long, informal and marked by cordiality on both sides was the ensuing chat between the King of Men and the Monarch of Motors, a chat which may just possibly have been momentous and lucky for Ireland...