Word: viscounts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Official Montreal really put on the dog for its distinguished visitor. Excitable Mayor Camillien Houde was absolutely épaté as the visitor signed his name below Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery's in the city's Gold Book. Then came a civic reception, and that afternoon the visitor was whisked out to the Blue Bonnets racetrack for the running of the big sixth race, renamed in his honor. The winning jockey was a namesake (but no kin) of Maurice Chevalier, which was fitting, because the man who handed him the winner's plaque was the latest homme...
Married. John Conrad Russell, Viscount Amberley, 24, son of Bertrand Russell, Britain's Socialist philosopher-earl and mathematician; and Susan Doniphan Lindsay, 20, daughter of the late U.S. poet Vachel Lindsay; in Washington...
Meanwhile the Viceroy, Viscount Wavell, appointed the Executive Council which is to take over next month from the present "caretaker" government, pending India's full dominion status. Five of the 14 seats were reserved for Moslems, but since Jinnah's Moslem League has refused to participate, Wavell appointed nonLeague Moslems. One of these, Sir Shafa'at Ahmad Khan, who clung to his British title and resigned from the League three weeks ago, was attacked apparently by co-religionists at Simla at week's end, stabbed seven times, hospitalized...
Field Marshal Viscount Harold Alexander, Governor General of Canada and leisure-hour painter, celebrated the joys of his hobby in the British Magazine. "As exciting as . . .hunting or stalking," said he. Among the high-ranking pleasures of oil paint: the "delicious smell." Confessed the Field Marshal: "I have fought many battles, and . . . generally been able to see. . . how the battle would develop, but when I am faced with a large white canvas. . . I suffer badly from...
Engaged. The Hon. Patricia Edwina Victoria Mountbatten, 22, great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria goddaughter of the Duke of Windsor,'eldest daughter of Viscount Mountbatten, debonair Admiral of the Royal Navy, former Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia; and Norton Cecil Michael Knatchbull, sixth Baron Brabourne, 21, son of the late cricket-playing Governor of Bombay and Bengal; in London...