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...office boy's salary as an assistant to the Third Assistant Secretary of State. That was in 1907. Within two years he had won such esteem in the Department that he was sent to London as first Secretary of the Embassy, a doubly important post because Ambassador Whitelaw Reid was in very poor health. It was during that period that he married Caroline Astor Drayton. Mrs. Phillips is a descendant of the Draytons whose name means as much in the history of Charleston, S. C. as her husband's does in Boston. In 1912 at the ripe...
Included in what the late Mrs. Whitelaw Reid passed on to her children were not only large holdings in the New York Herald Tribune, a Manhattan house, but also a huge, ugly greystone palace on an eminence outside White Plains, N. Y. Last year the contents of the Manhattan house were sold. Last week Son Ogden...
...Whitelaw Reids had Edwardian tastes and they fitted their palace with the best of what they liked. They liked French tapestries, British, French and Dutch paintings of landscapes and fine-looking people, Persian rugs on the floors, Chinese pottery everywhere, and their favorite kind of chair was one covered with fine needlepoint. Last week, through four days of sightseeing and five of auctioning, Ophir Hall was full of socialites of Edwardian tastes, bidding against the usual agents...
Married. Lady Moira Mary Forbes, 24, niece of Ogden Mills, grandniece of the late Mrs. Whitelaw Reid; and Comte Louis de Brantes, 34; at Castle Forbes, Newtown Forbes, Irish Free State. Three weeks ago Russian Princess Nadejda Scherbatoff sued Groom de Brantes for $65,000 damages allegedly incurred in bearing him a daughter (TIME...
Home in the U. S., Helen Reid bore three children. One died of typhoid at the age of nine. Son Whitelaw is now at Yale, Son Ogden Jr., 9, in boarding school. Mrs. Reid slaved for women's suffrage until 1918 brought victory. Then her husband said to her: "You are freed from your suffrage work and responsibility. The Tribune needs you; come down to the office and work the paper's success out with...