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...interested by TIME'S article (May 1) about Arthur Charles Wellesley, fourth Duke of Wellington and Duque de Ciudad Rodrigo. Your readers, learning that the present Duke is still a persistent foxhunter at the age of 84, and noting the aura of British vigor apparent in your portrait of him, may guess that he comes of a family notable solely for its blustering militance. Such a guess would be incorrect. Garret Wellesley, Earl of Mornington and father of the first Wellington, had tastes which were singular indeed in the begetter of an Iron Duke. It is known to relatively...
...titles under the monarchy, will be confiscated. Also refused exemption last week were the lands of the Duke of Vitoria, but after formal protest by the British Government one Spanish grandee's lands were spared: those of the Duque de Ciudad Rodrigo, Arthur Charles Wellesley, fourth Duke of Wellington...
...week of the rich rewards which frightened Europe was willing to pay 120 years ago to anyone who could beat Napoleon. The present Duke, still a fervent foxhunter at 84, is the grandson of the Iron Duke, was three years old when the latter died. The title Duke of Wellington and the right to bear the Union Jack on his coat of arms is but a small part of his inheritance. He is a Duke in Portugal, a Prince in Holland and recipient of a $20,000-a-year pension from the Belgian government. Ciudad Rodrigo, scene...
...emotional content fit for mass consumption, sharply imagined and compactly told. Director Hawks, always at his best when dealing with dangerous machinery, makes the voyages of the torpedo-launch the most exciting sequences. Good shot: the funeral, with candles on a bar and a matchbox for a coffin, of Wellington, Ronnie's fighting cockroach...
Argentine Tango is in no sense as big a book as "Wellington." The material runs thin, and might even be called superficial, except that these travel sketches are always so well drawn and prove so diverting. Guedalla has not lost his sharp wit nor his ability to portray lucidly. He has done a competent piece of work with difficult and rather unsatisfactory material...