Foreign News: Fiery Furness

Lions are occasionally seen on the Nairobi, British East Africa golf course. There is also a cinema theatre, but apart from these diversions life in Nairobi can be excessively dull. The Hon. Averill Furness, 23-year-old daughter of Viscount Furness, shipbuilding tycoon, and Andrew Rattray, her father's so-year-old professional hunter, found it so one evening last month as they finished dinner. Next morning, with a maid and a typist as the only witnesses, they were secretly married. Lord Furness was out in the bush hunting lions. To break...

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