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Married. Mrs. Lucy Cotton Thomas Ament, beauteous relict of Publisher Edward Russell Thomas of the New York morning Telegraph, onetime actress (Turn to the Right, Up in Mabel's Room); and Lieut.-Commander Charles Hann Jr., Manhattan lawyer, onetime Harvard football star, whom she met last October at the wedding of Richard Brown Scandrett Jr., socialite nephew of Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow; secretly, last month; in Towson, Md. From Col. Thomas Mrs. Thomas inherited riches (she sued successfully for her one-third dower-right) and the morning Telegraph, Broadwayish sporting sheet (she dynamically edited for two years...
Married. Pierre Lorillard, Manhattan and Tuxedo, N. Y. socialite, son of the late Pierre Lorillard who founded Lorillard Co. (tobacco) and Tuxedo Park; and Mrs. Ruth Hill Beard, relict of the late Anson McCook Beard, daughter of the late great James Jerome Hill who founded the Great Northern Railroad; in Manhattan...
Married. Mrs. Agnes Lee Hadley, relict of the late Herbert Spencer Hadley, onetime (1909-13) Governor of Missouri who died in 1927; and Henry Joseph Haskell, editor of the Kansas City Star (his first wife, Isabel Cummings, died in 1923; his second wife, Katherine Wright, sister of Air Pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright, died in 1929); in Manhattan...
...sooner had Mrs, John Brooks .Henderson, 90, relict of Missouri's Senator, offered her Washington mansion to the Vice Presidents of the U. S. (TIME, Feb. 9) than her granddaughter, Mrs. Beatrice ("Trixie") Van Rensselaer Henderson Wholean, filed suit to prevent the gift, contending that her grandmother was not mentally responsible. Forthwith Mrs. Henderson announced that Mrs. Wholean was not her granddaughter at all, but a foundling; because of the suit she would cut the foundling off in her will. News hawks dug up this strange story...
Died. Mrs. Annie Sinton Taft, 77, relict of the late Publisher Charles Phelps Taft of the Cincinnati Times-Star, sister-in-law of the late Chief Justice William Howard Taft, grandmother of Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics David Sinton Ingalls; of heart disease; in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was the founder with her husband of Cincinnati's Institute of Fine Arts, patroness of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra...