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Noel Johnston and Marie Tailer (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Pixel Wrangler said:

  The photo shows Miss Noel Johnston (left) and Miss Marie Tailer of New York City, aboard the RMS Olympic, departing New York.. Another photo taken at the time by photographers Underwood & Underwood was published in The Washington Times on July 09, 1914 (Home Edition, Page 3) — LOC Chronicling America The caption reads: "Miss Tailer has been motoring abroad for the last ten weeks, driving her own car upwards of 5,000 miles. She said she was looking forward to an athletic summer in the Berkshires. Miss Tailer said the best feature of Europe are the roads, which are better than the ones in this country. She also denied she was engaged." Her engagement was announced five months later. Marie Tailer (c.1895-1937), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Lee Tailer, was married November 3, 1915, to S. Bryce Wing (c1890-1975), son of Mr and Mrs L. Stuart Wing of New York.  Marie died of a heart attack in 1937, and her husband remarried in 1939. [1] [2] [3] Noel Johnston (d.1979), daughter of Mr and Mrs J. Herbert Johnson, was married April 14, 1915, to William H. Appleton (b.1883). He was the son of William Worthen Appleton and the late Anna Dublois Sargent Appleton. Mr. Appleton, a Harvard graduate, was in the cotton brokerage business with Stephen M. Weld & Co. He later joined the insurance firm of John C. Paige & Co. Inc. Miss Johnston was the granddaughter of the late John Taylor Johnson, who for many years was President of the Central Railroad of New Jersey. Their engagement was announced in September, 1914, immediately after Noel returned from Europe. [4] [5] On December 31, 1915, they gave birth to a son, William Worthen Appleton, II., who, after graduating from Harvard, taught at Columbia for more than thirty years. [6] [7] Some years later Mrs. Noel Johnston Appleton married D. Wooster King, of New York City, on September 24, 1932. [8]  

• Pixel Wrangler said:

  Marie Tailer – "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World"
  
  During his visit to Newport, Rhode Island in 1913, His Imperial Highness, The Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia (1866-1933), was struck by the beauty of American women. According to published reports, The Grand Duke "collected photographs of the women he met in Newport, especially at The Casino and Bailey's Beach."
  
  The Grand Duke was particularity smitten by Miss Marie Tailer of New York City, who was visiting Newport at that time, and he was "anxious to obtain a photograph of her". He declared that Miss Tailer was "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World". [1]
  
  This pronouncement was picked up by newspapers across the country (if not the world), and photos of Miss Tailer were published for some years afterwards -- always with the "Most Beautiful Girl in the World" moniker in the caption. [2]
  
  IMNHO more flattering photos of Miss Tailer than the one above can be found in The (San Francisco) Call and The (Georgia) Evening Ledger.
  
  There are several photos of The Grand Duke in the Bain Collection on Flickr:
   
                    "Grand Duke Alexander Michaelovitch"   From Bain / LOC
                               
  
  
   

• Richard Norton said:

  Noel Johnston www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107975013 Marie Tailer www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107969190