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Sirs: Your Religion Editor does less than full justice to the position of the Catholic Church in his story on the Marlborough-Vanderbilt case (TIME, Dec. 6). The answer to the "question of principle" which he asks is so patent that no Catholic ever thought of giving it. "Why does the Roman Catholic Church he asks refuse to grant a divorce to a man and woman who have lived in civil wedlock; but instead (italics mine) grants an annulment, of which one effect is to inform the unhappy pair that they have been living together in an unmarried state...
...other speaker." This fact was noted at the bottom of a long column of the New York Times last week. And who could the speaker be, when one of the ablest Senators from the South was merely the other? The speaker was the head of the English Department of Vanderbilt University ?Dr. Edwin Mims by name. He is the author of a book* which raised a controversy. In his speech last week before the Southern Society in Manhattan, he reiterated his side of that controversy. It is now time, he said, to cease talking about Southern chivalry, hospitality, traditions...
Engaged. Adele Sloane Hammond, daughter of John Henry Hammond,* lawyer, member, Brown Bros. & Co., bankers; niece of Ogden Haggerty Hammond, U. S. Ambassador to Spain; descendant of "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt; to John Kensett Olyphant, grandson of Robert Olyphant, one-time President, Delaware & Hudson R. R. Simultaneous announcement was made of the engagement of her sister, Alice Frances, to George Arthur Victor Duckworth, grandson of the late John Campbell Campbell, (1779-1861) onetime Lord Chancellor of England...
Died. Louise Vanderbilt Schieffelin Hewitt, 25, wife of Abram S. ("Chappie") Hewitt, greatgrand-daughter (maternal) of "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt; great-great-granddaughter (paternal) of John Jay; in Manhattan, by a fall or leap from her apartment window, following nervous breakdown...
...Francis Daley of Andover was elected First Marshal of the Senior class yesterday by a large majority. Clement Duane Coady of West Newton, and John Randolph Burke, of Milton, were chosen Second and Third Marshals respectively. The other officers elected on the first 1927 ballot were Frederick Vanderbilt Field, of New York City Treasurer, Dwight Westley Chapman Jr., of Wilmette, Illinois, Orator; Geoffrey McNair Gates, of Elyria, Ohio, Ivy Orator; Pierpont Stackpole, of Milton, Poet; Ambrose Francis Keeley, of Fall River, Odist; Richard Thomas Flood, of Brookline, Chorister...