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...distinguished himself on its playing fields as a first-class athlete. Last month, when the time came to start their own son's period of formal education, Elizabeth and Philip together delivered eight-year-old Prince Charles, Duke of Cornwall, into the care of Cheam-the first heir to the British throne ever to go away to school like a commoner...
Died. William Clark, 66, tall, wealthy (Clark thread fortune heir), cantankerous former judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, who left the bench to serve as a lieutenant colonel in World War II, returned to find his seat filled, sued claiming the G.I. Bill guaranteed him his job (he lost); of a heart attack; in Nuwara Eliya, Ceylon. Harvardman ('11) Clark first gained fame in 1930 by ruling that the 18th (prohibition) Amendment was invalid, a decision unanimously reversed by the Supreme Court...
...rarity at Cheam, one of whose former headmasters habitually underlined the prerogatives of birth by addressing the sons of commoners as "my child," the sons of peers as "my dear child," and young peers in their own right as "my darling child." As for the young Duke and heir to the throne, the word has gone round to all his 92 young schoolmates to call him plain "Charles...
George's will may add his 20% to John's 20% in a foundation to hold the brothers' 40% share of A. & P. in one bloc. But A. & P. ownership is now split off from management, since Burger, 68, is neither an heir nor a trustee of the Hartford fortune. So far, all the Hartfords want him to continue managing the store. Since the stock earned $19.21 a share last year, up from $16.09, and paid $7 a share dividend while A. & P. grossed $4.5 billion, there is no reason to change...
...London, the Daily Sketch reported that Princess Margaret would marry a faithful escort and bachelor-in-waiting, Billy Wallace, British-born stepson of U.S. Author Herbert Agar and heir to an iron-and-coal fortune. But Billy and Buckingham Palace denied the report. Meanwhile, down in Venezuela, a faithful escort of yesteryear, R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend, was surprised by a photographer while at breakfast aboard a Japanese freighter in the port of La Guaira. After tossing a plateful of fried eggs and chips, rolls and jelly at the man, Townsend recovering his aplomb, said, tightlipped...