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Seeking Divorce. Mrs. Barbara Vandenberg Knight, daughter of Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg; from John Knight, employe of Western Cartridge Co.; in Grand Rapids...
...over the land last week thousands of adopted children were growing up to be strong, healthy boys & girls. In Chicago Charles Gates Dawes could boast of a grown adopted son, a grown adopted daughter. In Santa Barbara, Calif., the John J. Mitchells (Lolita Armour) could likewise boast of two adopted children. Down the Coast in Hollywood, many a cinemadopted youngster rested securely in his crib, or romped beside a private pool. There the visitor could read about Wallace Beery's 4-year-old Carol Ann, Gloria Swanson's Joseph, Harold Lloyd's Peggy, Constance Bennett...
Divorced. "Prince" Alexis Mdivani, 31; by Barbara Hutton Mdivani, 22, Woolworth heiress ($20,000,000); in Reno. Next day she married Count Kurt von Haugwitz-Reventlow, 38, handsome second son of an old Danish family. Independently rich, the Count stands to inherit a trust fund of 3,500,000 kroner ($1,575,000), six castles and estates in Denmark and a vast estate in Upper Silesia, all good dairy producers...
...painting, September Morn (TIME, April 8: March 18), I am wondering if any inquiry has been made of the artist as to the source from which he derived his title. It is pure surmise on my part that it came- perhaps subconsciously - from the second line of the poem, Barbara Frietchie. Every school boy knows those first two lines...
...made in 1926. After two days of running, jumping and throwing, six meet records had been broken, the University of California at Los Angeles had defended its mile-relay championship and famed Glenn Cunningham had won a special three-quarter mile race against Glen Dawson of Tulsa. At Santa Barbara, competing in the invitation Track & Field Championships, Pole-Vaulter Bill Graber, onetime star at the University of Southern California, broke his own world's record (14 ft. 4⅛ in.) with a vault...