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Born. To Mrs. Ambrose Harrison of Toronto: a son, her 14th child, her 8th since 1926, when Charles Millar died bequeathing some $500,000 to that Toronto woman who should bear the most children in the ensuing decade. Still in the lead in this babe-stakes are Mrs. Frances Lillian Kenny (eleven), Mrs. Grace Bagnato (nine) (TIME...
...Sopwith's first wife, a daughter of the 8th Baron Ruthven, died. The present Mrs. Sopwith, whom he married two years ago, is an expert deep-sea fisherwoman, last year caught a 640-lb. tuna in British waters after a 6-hour struggle. As enthusiastic about sailing as her husband, Mrs. Sopwith will be the first woman ever to help man a boat in an America's Cup race. Her job will be time keeper. At the start, with a stopwatch in each hand, she will let her husband know how many seconds he has before Endeavour can cross...
...Boniface, In Fulda last week the Church made its annual conference of bishops a show of strength. All over the town fluttered the gold-&-white flag of the Papacy. Pilgrims poured in, ostensibly to visit the tomb of St. Boniface who as "Apostle to the Germans" in the 8th Century, fought against the same kind of Teutonic paganism that many a Nazi seeks to revive today. So the Nazi Konigsberg Journal recalled that Boniface placed the German Church "under Rome, and thereby laid the foundations for the later struggles of Popes and Kaisers...
...Bernardino Bilbao Rioja and his 2nd Bolivian Division have smashed the 2nd Paraguayan Division, cut off the 7th Paraguayan from establishing contact with the 8th, and completely encircled the left wing of the Paraguayan force. . . . Collecting the great number of Paraguayan wounded has placed a heavy burden on all Bolivian detachments." Later figures gave Paraguayan losses at 3,000 dead, 5,000 wounded, 1,633 prisoners including 78 officers. Paraguay did not take this defeat quietly. To the League's Secretary in Geneva Ramon Caballero de Bedoya announced that, to its great regret, Paraguay was about to embark...
...last. Gay and handsome, he had crossed the channel to hunt with Chicago Harvester Scion Leander James McCormick whose beauteous wife was the Comtesse de Fleurieu. Also at the McCormick's "Heronry" were Captain and Mrs. J. H. B. Rodney, he a younger brother of the 8th Baron Rodney, she of Seattle. In the middle of the night Jackson, the McCormicks' chauffeur, heard his master and mistress begin to shout "Fire!" In their night clothes they walked safely out of "The Heronry's" front door...