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Died. Charles H. ("Duke") Wellington, 56, veteran cartoonist, creator (in 1914) of the still-existent Pa's Son-in-Law (Pa and Ma Splutterfuss and son-in-law Cedric); of pneumonia; in North Hollywood, Calif...
...singing, which was a lucrative profession in those days. Solos at Symphony Hall and the Vice-Presidency of the Glee Club were the high-spots, and the nearest he came to performing before the crowned heads of Europe was a concert in the home of Governor-General Viscount Wellington of Canada. Apparently either no one minded his twang, or else it is a recent development...
...Colonel Kernan's formula for victory is a return to the slashing tactics of Napoleon, Wellington, Marshal Foch (whose Conduct of War he has translated).* His battle slogan is the famed dispatch from Foch at the First Battle of the Marne: "My right is exposed, my left is heavily attacked, my center is unable to hold its position, I cannot redistribute my forces. The situation is excellent. I shall attack...
Action East. A U.S. destroyer heeled into harbor at Wellington, N.Z., boiled to its anchorage at 23 knots (15 knots above the harbor speed limit). Aboard was the Christian Science Monitor's mild, sandy-haired Correspondent Joseph C. Harsch, who wrote...
Died. H.R.H. Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught and of Strathearn, and Earl of Sussex, 91, last surviving son of Queen Victoria; in Bagshot Park, England. Godson of the Duke of Wellington, in his youth he was called "The Soldier Prince," entered Woolwich Military Academy at 16, pursued an active military career for more than 40 years. He was Governor General of Canada from 1911 to 1916. He rejected three thrones during his lifetime: Saxe-Coburg & Gotha (1899), Czecho-Slovakia (1915), Hungary...