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...confused with the present Earl of Balfour, Arthur James, "A. J.," Prime Minister of Great Britain (1902-05), leading British representative at the Washington Conference...
...Father of the House of Lords" is that genial golfer George William Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry, two years younger than Lord North, and one of the last two or three men in England to wear a top hat every day, even with a sack suit. The Countess of Coventry, past her fourth score of years, likes to say; "I can still do my five miles in jig time on a tricycle, and how many of your young people can?" As a private collection, the Earl's gallery of historic oil paintings at Croome Court is second...
...That great jurist the Earl of Birkenhead stretched truth very slightly by remarking: "If the Prime Minister advises the King to cut off his own head His Majesty is expected to assent...
...third marriage ended appropriately in Paris. She lost control of herself, "and just flew at him." The divorce was a "teriffic ordeal" for Peggy?over 4,000 newspaper columns. She won, and her share was about $2,000,000. After a fling in Earl Carroll's Vanities, Peggy went legally to bed again?this time to Count Gosta Morner. He lasted six weeks. The Earl of Northesk (of Vanities Jessica Brown fame) and Count de Janze were later also-rans. Someone, said to be prominent in the automobile business, lately gave her the very biggest diamond she could find...
With only the unlimited class struggle left, and the Lions leading 16 to 11, Nathaniel Warner '30, captain of the Harvard matmen, brought the score to a tie by throwing Earl Carlsten, Columbia football player, in five minutes and forty seconds...