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After taking a Moral Science Tripos at Cambridge University, Wing Commander Straight turned professional automobile racer, won many contests at England's famed Brooklands speedway, became a director of 21 British aviation companies, married sightly Lady Daphne Finch-Hatton, daughter of the 14th Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham, and in 1936 became a British subject...
...eight-volume edition of The Greville Memoirs: 1814-1860, edited by Lytton Strachey & Roger Fulford (Macmillan, $80). First published in an expurgated edition in 1874, nine years after hooknosed, cynical-lipped, elegant Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville's death, they seemed to Queen Victoria in "DISGRACEFULLY bad taste." Lord Winchilsea compared them to a life of the Apostles written by Judas Iscariot. Historians and biographers have long since ranked them among the greatest English political diaries. But, because some 80,000 words of the 91 red-covered notebooks were suppressed and because they were written in simple code the general...
Married. Lady Daphne Finch-Hatton, 21, daughter of Sir Guy Montagu George Finch-Hatton. 14th Earl of Winchilsea and Earl of Nottingham; and Whitney Straight, 22, Manhattan socialite automobile racer; in London, four days after the marriage of her brother, Viscount Maidstone, to Countess Gladys Széchényi (TIME, July...
Married. Countess Gladys Szechenyi, 21. daughter of Count Laszlo Szechenyi, Hungarian Minister to the Court of St. James's, and of the former Gladys Vanderbilt; and Christopher Guy Heneage Finch-Hatton, Viscount Maidstone, 23, only son of Sir Guy Montagu George Finch-Hatton. 14th Earl of Winchilsea and Earl of Nottingham, and of the former Margaretta Armstrong Drexel of Philadelphia; in London...
Katharine Drexel's Uncle Anthony J. ("Dandy Tony") became an international figure, fond of expensive yachts. Cousin Margaretta married the impoverished Viscount Maidstone (now Earl of Winchilsea & Nottingham). Cousin Anthony J. Jr. espoused Marjorie Gould, daughter of gay George Jay and niece of another pious socialite, Helen Gould (Mrs. Finley Johnson Shepard). Other Drexels were much in the world. Not so the daughters of Francis Anthony. Katharine read Helen Hunt Jackson's A Century of Dishonor, toured the West with Elizabeth to find out how Indians were cared for. She found things even worse than the book...