Word: welleses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sumner Welles, 56, onetime Under Secretary of State, who almost died after collapsing and lying for some eight hours in a frosty field last Christmas night, was about ready to leave the hospital. Special treatment for severe frostbite (cold packs, whirlpool baths, penicillin shots, drugs) had saved his frozen toes...
Born. To Benjamin Welles, 32, elder son of ex-Diplomat Sumner Welles and New York Timesman in the London bureau, and Cynthia Monteith Welles, 31, ex-wife of Lord Beaverbrook's son Max: their first child, a daughter; in London. Name: Serena. Weight: 6 lbs.
In Cannes, France, Aly Khan called in reporters and handed around typewritten statements announcing his engagement to Rita Hayworth (he is still married to his first wife; Rita's divorce from Orson Welles became final last November). Said he: "I am going to marry Miss Hayworth as soon as...
Sumner Welles, 56, found unconscious in a Maryland neighbor's frosty field last week, was coming along fine too: doctors now doubted that his frozen toes would have to be amputated.
At Welles's magnificent Oxon Hill estate, his valet reported that Welles had worked late that night in his study, and around midnight had told the valet to go to bed, that he was going for a short walk. That was the last any of the servants saw of...