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Died. Archibald Philip Primrose, Fifth Earl of Rosebery, 82, of Durdans, Epsom, England; at Durdans. His 17-year-old boasts were: he would marry an heiress, win the Derby, become Prime Minister of England. He accomplished all three: married Hannah, eldest daughter of late great Baron Meyer de Rothschild; won the Derby thrice; was Liberal Prime Minister...
...century and a half the Fassnacht family has dominated the Freiburg Passion Play, passing its privilege to its heirs. In Manhattan six Fassnachts appeared. Georg was a tragically mercurial Judas. Georg Jr. was Johannes. Amalie, Elsa and Augusta were respectively Mary, Mary Magdalene, the Blind Woman. Adolf, the eldest, gave to the Christus a grave presence, a tenor voice of such reedy purity and pliability that the German tongue seemed, in his mouth, no longer one of the world's least lovely languages...
Born. To Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Brandreth McAlpin Jr. of Greenwich, Conn., eldest son and daughter-in-law of Col. B. B. McAlpin (hotels, law) of Manhattan; a son (first grandson), 7 Ibs. 9 oz. Name: B. B. McAlpin...
Engaged. Charles Jacob Young of Schenectady, N. Y., General Electric employe, Wartime ambulance driver and aviator, eldest son of General Electric's Board Chairman Owen D. Young; to Esther Marie Christensen of Cleveland, Junior League poetess and black-and-white artist, daughter of Niels Anton Christensen, airbrake inventor, Danish vice-consul...
Rich was Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch, eldest of the great Nathaniel Bowditch's (1773-1838) eight children. The Bowditches are among the oldest of U. S. families, descended as they are from one William Bowditch who lived at Salem, Mass., from...