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...About Lord Fisher. " From the very beginning his letters were couched in an affectionate and paternal style. 'My beloved Winston, they began, ending usually with a variation of 'Yours to a cinder, 'Yours till Hell freezes,' or 'Till charcoal sprouts,' followed by a P. S. and two or three more pages of pregnant and brilliant matter...
...whatever the final fate of the disputed portraits, Sargent's position in the National Gallery is secure. The gallery hung-several years ago-his fine portrait of Lord Ribblesdale. Sargent, 'in his middle sixties, has become an "old master." Without dying, he has joined Reynolds, Romney, Raeburn as an " immortal British...
...Lord Eobert's unshakable faith in his dream-almost-come-true...
Married. Gwendolin Marshall Field, granddaughter and heiress of the late Marshall Field of Chicago, to Archibald Charles Edmondstone, son of Sir Archibald Edmonstone, in London. Earl Beatty, First Lord of the Admiralty, gave the bride away, in the absence of her brother, who is ill. The groom's father presented the couple with the ancient castle of Duntreath in Stirlingshire, near Glasgow...
Married. Lady Northcliffe, widow of Viscount Northcliffe, English newspaper proprietor, to Sir Robert Arundell Hudson, a leader of the Liberal Party. By her remarriage she forfeited part of her inheritance from Lord Northcliffe, who died on August 14 last. It was reported at the time of Lord Northcliffe's death that he wished Lady Northcliffe to marry Sir Robert. The attachment of the two is said to be of 15 years standing, and Lord Northcliffe often urged his wife to secure a divorce, which she refused to do for fear of scandal...