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Died. Marie Adrienne Anne Victurnienne Clémentine de Rochechouart de Crussol, Dowager Duchess d'Uzes, 85, for 60 years France's foremost socialite, able huntswoman, sculptress, novelist, playwright; of pneumonia; at the home of her daughter Duchess de Luynes; in Dapierre, France. Relict and mother of France's senior dukes, she was spoken of in French society simply as "La Duchesse." Out of her immense Veuve Cliquot vineyard incomes she financed General Georges Boulanger's intrigue in the 1880's to return monarchy to France. After a youth as the "most beautiful, best-born...
Died. Carrie Sonneborn Guggenheim, 74, relict of Manhattan Copperman Isaac Guggenheim (1923 estate: estimated $25,000,000; 1932 estate: $10.000,000); of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...Arundel, Sussex home, handsome, patrician John Galsworthy, 65. learned he had been awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. To Dr. Irvinq Langmuir, 51, went the Nobel award for Chemistry (see p. 24). Left: by Mrs. Annie Sinton Taft, relict of Publisher Charles Phelps Taft of the Cincinnati Times-Star, sister-in-law of the late Chief Justice William Howard Taft: $5,637,233.41 each to Daughters Jane Taft Ingalls (mother of David Sinton Ingalls, defeated last week for Ohio's Governorship) and Anna Louise Taft Semple: $1,000,000 to the Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts...
Born. To Mme Paul Gorgulov, relict of French President Paul Doumer's assassin (TIME, May 16, et seq.); a daughter; in Paris...
Died. Mary Williamson Averell Harriman, 81, philanthropist, relict of Railroadman Edward Henry Harriman (died: 1909) who left her $100,000,000, in Manhattan...