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Died. Mrs. Alma Parker Harvey, 68, relict of famed Editor George Brinton McClellan Harvey (Harvey's Weekly, North American Review), onetime (1921-23) Ambassador to Great Britain; of heart disease; in Peacham, Vt, her birthplace...
...South Nyack, N. Y. Mrs. Ida Barrett Wheaton, 55, relict of a War veteran whom she met by mail, heard that her new War-veteran-correspondence fiance, one Warren Harris, was weakening in his resolution to marry her. She packed her bags, hailed a taxi, directed the driver: "Walkerton, Indiana. Step on it!" At Walkerton she found her fiance was only 36 years old. Also she disliked her prospective mother-in-law. Therefore she directed the chauffeur to drive her back to South Nyack. Distance covered: 1,778 mi. Fare...
...Manhattan to see about business matters before going to Taos, N. Mex., Mrs. David Herbert Lawrence, German relict of the British writer, cousin of the late great German War Ace Manfred von Richthofen, said: "We were together for 18 years. I was a married woman of 32 and had three children when we met. And he was 26. He had no money, and my family cut me off. Such courage he had! . . . You would know he was unusual, just by seeing him in a crowd." Concerning John Middleton Murry, whose biography of Lawrence recently appeared (TIME, May 4), she cried...
...Philadelphia the Needlework Guild of America- held its annual convention and re-elected for the third successive time Mrs. Thomas Jex (Frances Folsom) Preston Jr., 66, relict of the late great Grover Cleveland and First Lady of Princeton, N. J., to be its national president. Energetic and assured, she made the speech of welcome, stressing the importance of welfare work and snapping: "I always vote, but I feel that women are more effective in other lines of work than in politics." She was followed on the platform by gentle Mrs. Theodore (Edith Kermit Carow) Roosevelt, 69, relict of the 26th...
April 20?Arrival in the U. S. of King Prajadhipok* and Queen Rambai Barni of Siam; at Portal, N. Dak. from Vancouver, B. C. U. S. residence during their stay: Uphir Hall" at Purchase, N. Y., grandiose, high-walled estate of Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, relict of the onetime U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain...