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...child's mother, beauteous, 26-year-old Countess Jane de Tristan (heiress as Jane Christenson to West Coast shipping and lumber fortunes), waited for the second letter. None came. Police kept hands off, to allow Louis S. Gates, the Countess' stepfather and president of Phelps-Dodge Corp., to get in touch with the kidnapper. But 24 hours went by and nothing happened. The hours were black and long for the de Tristans...
...doddering old Kaiser Wilhelm's spruce young grandsons, Prince Friedrich of Prussia, finding himself in England at outbreak of war, streaked for the Scottish Highlands to stay with his friends, the scrawny Duke and beauteous Duchess of Buccleuch & Queensbury. At the Corona tion in 1937 the Duchess helped to hold the canopy over the Queen. As Governor of the Royal Bank of Scotland the Duke has as his subordinate (Deputy Governor) the Queen's father, the Earl of Strathmore. The Duke's sister is the Duchess of Gloucester, sister-in-law of King George...
Died. William Meade Lindsley Fiske III, 29, famed U. S. winter-sportsman, driver of winning Olympic bobsleds (1928, 1932), reputedly the first American to join the R. A. F. as a pilot; of wounds received during aerial combat; somewhere in southeastern England. In 1938 Mr. Fiske married the beauteous Countess of Warwick...
...Hitler entertained at Berchtesgaden the then President of the Assembly of the League of Nations. That gentleman, the swank-loving, multimillionaire Aga Khan, was impressed. After Munich he wrote to the London Times predicting there would be no war. When the Blitzkrieg struck Flanders the Aga Khan and his beauteous Begum (rated No. 5 among the ten best-dressed women in the world) fled from a French spa, not to Britain but to Switzerland. In Geneva last week the Aga Khan was no longer able to get money transferred from his bank accounts in London, Bombay and Cairo...
...University of Washington student. Last week young Carpenter tried to better his record. But the best he could do, after taking two bad spills, was finish fourth. Winner: 35-year-old Robert Brown, garage mechanic, winner in 1937 and runner-up last year. Of 20 starters, 14 finished-including beauteous Barbara Denny, daughter of Actor Reginald Denny, who streaked in last, sobbing hysterically...