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...Count and Countess* Court Haugwitz-Reventlow decided last week to reconcile themselves to their position as members of the royal family of the press. Instead of forcing reporters to scale fences and bore peepholes for news of the royal ructions (TIME, July 4), they graciously issued a stately circular through their London solicitors, announcing that "all matters in dispute between them have been amicably settled." Items: they will file a deed of separation enabling them to be divorced in 18 months; two-year-old Son Lance will be in the charge of his mother as a child, of his father...
...Unity Farm last fortnight, with Mrs. West as president, was held Unity's Annual Conference. Already under way on the handsome, well-kept farm was a summer Unity Training School, whose folder reminded students that "Tuition is paid on the love-offering basis," and bore a picture of Jesus Christ with the caption "Headmaster...
...Charlie Chaplin's first wife was onetime Cinemactress Mildred Harris, who divorced him in 1920. His second wife, Lita Grey, who bore him two sons, divorced him in 1927. Last week at Manhattan Beach, Calif., Lita Grey, since married and divorced again, was herself married a third time to a 29-year-old cinemagent, Arthur...
...night last week, after work had been suspended for the day, watchmen passed through the air lock of the north tube, opened the door leading to the boring shield, were met by a blast of smoke. Inside a great, licking blaze, whetted by the high oxygen content of the compressed air, was feeding on timbers, sawdust and salt hay in the unfinished bore. Backing out through the lock, they found the telephone short-circuited, the elevator not running, had to climb ten flights of stairs up the ventilating shaft to sound an alarm...
That Margaret Countess of Holland bore 365 children at once 600 years ago no one believes. No incontestable records of the phenomenon exist. Even Canada's honest Elzire Dionne might have been called a backwoods impostor if one or more of the Quintuplets had died and been disposed of before photographers got there to record the scene. But at Liverpool, England, Mrs. George Taylor of Purgin Street took no such chances when last May she felt that she might set some sort of nativity record. She had herself Xrayed, and sure enough she was carrying quadruplets...