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...been a country gentleman, a younger son reared not for the throne (that was for gay Edward), but for the ancillary quiet of a royal dukedom. A strict father, a stalwart mother and some reserve within himself gave him an air of strict propriety. A governess, tutors, a sergeant of the Coldstream Guards cultivated the necessary manners and arts. Naval schools (Osborne and Dartmouth), a sea tour as a snotty (midshipman) before and during World War I shaped him in his family's marine tradition. A childhood friendship produced his Duchess and his Queen, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon...
...cramped ten-hour train trip to London had made him stiff and weary. In the Mostyn Club, a Red Cross club for tired soldiers, Sergeant Wilbur Banik of Chicago picked a quiet room, flopped down, shoes and all, and fell fast asleep...
Commonweal. Later he specialized in German affairs, wrote the footnotes to Reynal & Hitchcock's edition of Mein Kampf. In World War I he was a sergeant; now he serves on the State Department's Advisory Committee on Cultural Relations. Another great current interest of President Shuster is the college community center, near Hunter's superb, modernistic building on Manhattan's swank Park Avenue. It is the Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial, the united former town houses of President Roosevelt and his mother. Attractively refurnished in what Dr. Shuster calls "B. Altman Empire" style, the center is used...
...almost one motion Banik jumped to attention and opened his mouth, but nothing much came out. When his composure returned, he had his picture taken with the royal couple, shook hands with the King, acknowledged the Queen's hope that he would enjoy himself in London. That night Sergeant Banik was a man with an audience...
Married. Anne Moen Bullitt, 19, only child of Philadelphia's former U.S. Ambassador to Russia and France William Christian Bullitt; and Army Staff Sergeant Caspar Wistar Barton Townsend, 23, of Philadelphia, a 1942 Yale graduate; in a surprise ceremony at Fort George G. Meade, Md. In October 1943 her father announced her engagement to Marine Lieut. Daniel Baugh Brewster Jr. of Brooklandville, Md. Mr. Bullitt's comment on the marriage: "What...