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Engaged. Mrs. Ralph Pulitzer, nee Frederica Vanderbilt Webb, who divorced her husband, publisher of The New York World, in Paris last April for "constructive desertion," to Cyril Jones, 34, onetime tutor to her sons and Secretary to Col. Edward M. House during the Versailles Peace Conference...
Sued for divorce. Mrs. Dustin Farnum (nee Mary Bessie Conwell), by her husband, famed stage and cinema actor; in Reno. He charged desertion...
...France (French) : The Countess Ludwig Salm von Hoogstraeten (nee Millicent Rogers) and her father, Colonel H. H. Rogers; Charles Ledoux, champion featherweight boxer of Europe...
...will of the deceased Hugo Stinnes, "King of Coke," was read but not published. According to report his entire fortune was left to his widow, Frau Klaire Stinnes, nee Wagenknecht; but the direction of his vast estate was placed in the hands of his two eldest sons, Dr. Edmund Hugo Stinnes and Hugo Hermann Stinnes, the former to be in charge of the Ruhr and Rhineland properties, the latter to oversee the family's interests in Berlin, run the shipping business and care for foreign properties...
Lenin's successors paid adulation to their defunct leader by renaming the city Leningrad. Western editors didn't take much notice. The Soviets, by transferring the capital to Moscow and by their economic policies towards foreign trade, have depressed Leningrad, nee St. Petersburg, from a population of 1,250,000 to 400,000. Leningrad, ruined, shrunken, wizened, is an appropriate memorial to the man whose political and economic philosophies plunged Russia into the greatest social experiment of modern times...