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...Thomas Astley Cubitt was appointed Governor and Commander in Chief, succeeding Lieut.-General Sir Louis Jean Bols who died last September. Any other week this would have been great news in Bermuda, but last week Hamiltonians gave it scarcely a thought. In their midst for six hours was the Earl of Chester, otherwise H. R. H. Edward of Wales. His lanky younger brother Prince George was also present, but attracted little more attention than the coming Cubitt...
...approved the brand new South African Jack. Design: the Royal Crest on a blue field, above "Union of South Africa," below Unie van Suid-Afrika. First to fly the new governor's flag of British-Dutch South Africa will be her new Governor General, George Herbert Hyde Villiers, Earl of Clarendon, great & good friend of His Majesty, owner of ruined Kenilworth Castle, onetime chairman of British Broadcasting Corp. Not eager to be first to fly the Canadian Governor General's prospective flag is the Earl of Cromer, Lord Chamberlain since 1922 and a leading member of "the Buckingham...
Lord Biskerton, known to his pals as the Biscuit, was son & heir (ah empty title) to the sixth Earl of Hoddesdon. He had red hair, a just discernible mustache, and a determination to die rather than go to work. Biscuit's old school friend Berry Conway, a mere commoner, had faced the facts and taken a job as secretary to Lon don-living U. S. Tycoon T. Paterson Frisby. Frisby talked in barks, luckily be came incoherent when dyspepsia and human folly reduced him to one of his frequent tantrums. Both Biscuit and Berry, dissatisfied with their lot, felt...
...frequent intervals she brightened the famed red shade of her employer's hair. Miss Bow, she said, liked to play poker six nights a week, generously bought watches, rings for her men friends, of whom Miss de Boe mentioned five - Gary Cooper, Lothar Mendez, Harry Richman, Dr. Earl Pierson, Rex Bell and ''so many it's hard to remember them all. ... I had to dress her . . . buy her gowns, and keep them off the floor where she piled her things when she went to bed. . . ." One day Clara bought herself a $10,000 engagement ring. While...
Married. Lady Perdita Asquith, granddaughter of the late great Earl of Oxford & Asquith, goddaughter of Author Sir James Matthew Barrie (who was present at the wedding); and Capt. Hon. William George Hervey Jolliffe of the Coldstream Guards; in London...