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Died. Yuki Kato Morgan, 81, widow of wealthy George Morgan, a beautiful Japanese Geisha girl who withstood the pleas of young Morgan (a nephew of J. P. Sr.) for nearly two years, at last in 1903, unlike Madame Butterfly, married the man and toured the world with him for twelve nomadic years until he died, leaving her a comfortable income, which she used to return home in 1938 and begin teaching the gentle art of the tea ceremony and ikebana (floral arrangement); of pneumonia; in Kyoto...
Married. Maria Roncalli, 26, niece of Pope John XXIII; and Luigi Gotti, 30, employed in a tile plant; in a simple nuptial Mass celebrated by Msgr. Giovanni Battista Roncalli, a nephew of the Pope; in Sotto il Monte, Italy...
...Rajah of Sarawak. Indifferent to crocodiles, boa constrictors and poisoned arrows, the White Rajah lived only for his handsome, amiable people. In 1848 he was knighted by Her Britannic Majesty, and in 1864 Britain recognized his raj. He died a bachelor in 1868 and was succeeded by his nephew Charles, who ruled for 50 years. Ranee Pan. The rajah who brought Sarawak into the modern world was Charles Brooke's son, who took over in 1917. In the more humdrum world of the 20th century, witty, Cambridge-educated Sir Charles Vyner Brooke became even more of a legend than...
...nephew of Tenzing Xorkey, the famous Sherpa who accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary on the first successful Everest ascent...
...French travel magazine, the two rising young Americans rose to about 13,000 ft., sailing a 72-ft. hot-air balloon across the English Channel in 3 hr. 45 min. Climbing out of the gondola, young Piccard, son of Balloonist Jean Felix Piccard, who died this year, and nephew of the late air-sea Explorer Auguste Piccard (inventor of the deep-diving bathyscaph), seemed to the manner born. Said he: "It was a perfect trip...