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Born. To Senator Robert Marion LaFollette of Wisconsin, and to Rachel Young LaFollette; a son (7 lb. 14 oz.); in Washington. Engaged. Leonora Brooke. 21, daughter of Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, white Raja of Sarawak (northwestern Borneo); and Kenneth Mackay, 2nd Earl of Inch- cape, 45, son of the late Lord Inchcape, shipping tycoon, brother of the Hon. Elsie Mackay who was lost in an attempted transatlantic flight in 1928. (In 1840 Trader James Brooke, great-uncle of Sir Charles, helped the Sultan of Borneo's uncle put down a rebellion, got the Raj of Sarawak in return.) Married...
...nickname comes from the fact that his hair, his eyes, his temper and his voice are all red. At 59 he snorts loudly at the elaborate technical training of modern midshipmen, is proud that he first went to sea at 14, that though he is heir presumptive to the Earl of Cork and Orrery he acquired his entire education aboard the oldtime training ship Britannia...
...Died. Earl Derr Biggers, 48, humorist, novelist, playwright, scenario-writer; of heart failure; in Pasadena. His first novel, Seven Keys To Baldpate, was his most famed. His best known fictional character: Charlie Chan, Chinese detective and aphorist...
London. In the House of Lords Viscount Cecil, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Marquess of Reading, Earl of Iddesleigh urged Government action...
CELEBRATED CASES OF CHARLIE CHAN -Earl Derr Biggers-Bobbs-Merrill ($2). The clever Chinese rides this omnibus through Cases One to Five...