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Suit was brought in London against Mrs. Alfred Noyes, wife of the poet, by a Mrs. Lillian Westby, who wanted $4,160 for her services in bidding up a rare manuscript, the Bedford Book of Hours, then owned by Mrs. Noyes, in an auction in July, 1929, against an agent for John Pierpont Morgan. The Morgan agent finally bought the manuscript for $165,000. Mrs. Noyes testified that Mrs. Westby simply had acted upon her suggestion that someone start the bidding, that no fee had been stipulated.
Mariposa, after California's Mariposa County, locale of Forty-niners' gold scrambles, was the name given first of three liners ordered by Matson Navigation Co. from Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. at Quincy, Mass. Christened with a bottle of water from Sydney Harbor, Australia, terminus of her run from San Francisco, the Mariposa was launched by Mrs. Wallace Alexander, wife of Matson Line's vice president.
At the imminent marriage in Bucharest of Princess Ileana of Rumania and Prince Anton von Habsburg, the bride's sister-in-law, Queen Helen of Rumania would be obliged to 1) appear with her eccentric, unfaithful husband King Carol, or 2) hide away. Last week she avoided both embarrassments by going to the home of her mother, onetime Dowager Queen Sophie of Greece, at Ascot, England. In October she will return to Bucharest for her son, Prince Mihai's tenth birthday.
*See Marcus Monroe Brown's Rockefeller in Education & Religion, 1905 (charitarian); Ida Minerva Tarbell's The History of Standard Oil, 1904 (anathema).