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Engaged. The Hon. Heather Grace Baden-Powell, 19, daughter of Lieut.- General Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, head of the Boy Scouts; and Lieut. G. E. Lennox-Boyd of the Highland Light Infantry; in London...
...time (9:20 2/5) was a record, nearly 8 sec. better than Kellsboro Jack's last year. Except for the failure of the favorite-which is almost an Aintree tradition -last week's race was run truer to form than any Grand National anyone could remember. The Hon. Dorothy Wyndham Paget, owner of Golden Miller, last year spent $200,000 for brood mares at the Newmarket sale. Two years before she had bought Golden Miller, who had brought only $500 as a yearling and had been resold four times since, for about $30,000. That her racing colors...
...Cambridge dean, a League of Nations secretary, a big game hunter, an archdeacon, a vice admiral, an Episcopal bishop's son, an Anglican bishop's sister, numerous Oxonians and Hon. Carl Vrooman of Bloomington, 111. To newshawks last week Frank Buchman declared: "Not one of us is employed. Yet we have managed to come across. I have not received a salary since 1922, but I manage somehow to live out of my seven suitcases. ... I haven't any idea of where all the money comes from...
...Backing his superior, the Lord Bishop of London cried out in a voice shaking with emotion: "I tell you, I would like to make a bonfire of these things, and dance around it." But not even the spectacle of the Rt. Rev. Rt. Hon. Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram prancing in his gaiters and apron around a pyre of contraceptives could dissuade the Lords. The bill passed...
...Married. Hon. Peter Rudyard Aitken, 22, younger son of Rt. Hon. William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Britain's No. 1 newspaper tycoon; and Janet MacNeill, 20, daughter of Professor Murray MacNeill of Dalhousie University (Halifax); in London...