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...nine, because his ardently Anglophile father insisted his son should be brought up as a proper Englishman, young Philip was shipped off to England to be reared by his mother's mother, the Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven. She was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria and the widow of Prince Louis of Battenberg, one of England's greatest naval commanders, who had Anglicized his name to Mountbatten during World...
...Commission for Women's Rights -had declared themselves no longer members of their church. (Since 1952 Swedes have been permitted to leave the state church merely by signing a form stating their intention.) Leader of the women's protest was Esther Lutteman, 69, a clergyman's widow and an outstanding Lutheran churchwoman, who denounced the church as too ceremonial, too institutional and, worst of all, too masculine...
...when Stalin doomed some 3,000,000 peasants to death from starvation by withholding grain, Duranty wrote: "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs"); of a stomach ailment; in the Orlando, Fla. hospital where he last week married his second wife, Anna Enwright, widow of a Florida judge. Duranty became well acquainted with the Kremlin oligarchy (said he: "Moscow stands for progress"; said Stalin: "You have done a good job of reporting"), accompanied Foreign Affairs Commissar Maxim Litvinoff when he came to Washington in 1933 searching for U.S. recognition, later covered the Spanish Civil...
Died. Carlo Blymyer Dawes, 92, widow of Vice President (1925-29) Charles Gates Dawes; in Chicago...
...mother of three children (one of them in his teens) Caitlin was expected by the prim and proper Welsh ladies to wear her widow's weeds decorously. Instead, "I stole their sons and husbands." By her testimony, she used sex to drown her grief, but it did not work: there was only "an increase in my inescapable dedication to Dylan." With the Welsh ladies' faces set against her like so many druid stones, Caitlin took her five-year-old son Colm and fled into exile, to the Italian island of Elba...