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Board Chairman Winthrop W. Aldrich of the Chase National Bank. . . . . . LL.D...
Settled. The slander suit brought by Ernest Aldrich Simpson, onetime (1928-37) husband of the Duchess of Windsor, against Mrs. Joan Sutherland, London socialite; in London; out of court. At a luncheon party Mrs. Sutherland allegedly gossiped that Mr. Simpson had been "well paid" to let his wife divorce him. Unknown to Mrs. Sutherland, Mrs. Peter Kerr-Smiley, Mr. Simpson's sister, was sitting beside...
Henderson was a great yachtsman and golfer, at Princeton a good ballplayer. Therein he differed from Aldrich, a son of Harvard, almost as sharply as in his prose. Aldrich cared little for sport aside from horses. He liked tweeds, quiet, his 400-acre estate near Barrytown, N. Y. His articles were always calm, stately, exact...
...Aldrich studied his music at Harvard and later in Germany. In 1885 he went back to Providence, his birthplace, and wrote editorials and reviews for its Journal. For two years he was secretary to Senator Dixon of Rhode Island. For eleven more he was the New York Tribune's assistant music critic, working with Krehbiel. When Henderson left the Times in 1902 he proposed Aldrich as his successor. Until 1924, when failing health made Aldrich write more sparingly, his articles, as oracular as Henderson's, proved the wisdom of the choice...
...Aldrich was a stutterer. As if by compensation he wrote rapidly, seldom revised. On his 70th birthday, the late Adolph Ochs, publisher of the Times, wrote to him: "You did your work with rare intelligence and conscientiousness. Your labors as a critic constituted a public service. . . . You held high the best traditions of journalism and of the New York Times . . . helped much to make the Times a powerful force...