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...swarthy, sixtyish, learned Balliol-graduate Sir Maharaj Singh, one of India's principal delegates to the Assembly. Author, statesman and educator, Sir Maharaj taught himself ventriloquism some 30 years ago (to amuse his children). Last week, with all the exuberance that earned him an Oxford "half-blue" in featherweight boxing and made him a top Indian tennis "champion, Delegate Singh offered to show off his talent before a meeting of a trusteeship subcommittee. To help him he had a brand-new stooge named Uno, just purchased for $85 in Times Square...
Died. Mrs. Ethelreda Lewis, sixtyish, onetime physical-culturist who dreamed of writing a big-seller and did it by chronicling in Trader Horn the fabulous and maybe apocryphal ivory-trading, gorilla-hunting adventures of chance-visitor Alfred Aloysius Smith; of a heart ailment; in Port Alfred, Cape Province, South Africa...
...George and Lady Ida had three children. Edith, the eldest, is the sad-looking, six-foot, sixtyish spinster now renowned for her exotic garb, her exotic prose, her "glittering plinths of jacynth" poetry. The elder son and successor to the title is Osbert: traveler, memoirist, novelist, literary crony of the King & Queen. The younger son is Sacheverell, amateur of baroque art, and biographer of Franz Liszt...
...made femininity a science, and probably earned more money doing it (an estimated $20 million) than any businesswoman in history. In 78 countries where her powders & perfumes are sold, Elizabeth Arden is a magic name printed diagonally on vari-shaped bottles and boxes. Elizabeth Arden, the woman, is sixtyish, not much over five feet in height...
...Abstract Painter Georgia O'Keeffe, 58; Choreographer Agnes de Mille, 36; Novelist I. A. R. Wylie (The Young In Heart), 60; Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist Esther Loring Richards, 60; Shakespearean Actress-Director Margaret Webster, 40; Radio Program Director Margaret Cuthbert, 52; New York Times Editorialist AnneO'Hare McCormick, sixtyish; International Business Machines Vice President Ruth Leach, 29; and New Jersey's Congresswoman Mary T. Norton...