"Sheer Gossip"

The engagement of Prince George, youngest brother of the Prince of Wales, to Miss Grace Vanderbilt, daughter of General and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt of Manhattan, was all but announced when the good ship Rumor sank in the sea of officialdom.

Said a high official of the Royal Household: " Sheer gossip! There is nothing to it!"

The secretary to Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt said: " If there had been an engagement I would have heard about it."