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...current market value of the investments which comprise Morris' endowment is $13,156, and the income from this even together with the 6d (7 cents) admission fee charged each visitor, is now wholly inadequate to cover the cost of upkeep...
...Promenade Concerts in the Royal Albert Hall get going. A good many of the queue-hardy, in fact, stand all day, sometimes four abreast, in lines stretching around the hall and down the street. When the doors open at 6:45 p.m., they plop down their 2s. 6d., break for the arena floor, and go right on standing. Those with the best positions (i.e., as close to the conductor as possible) do not budge for the whole 2½-hour concert...
...association of British phillumenists (collectors of matchbox labels) reinstated one of its members who had been delinquent since July: former King Farouk of Egypt (who had a collection of 150,000 items before he left Egypt) finally got around to sending in his 125. 6d. back dues...
...London financial circles, traders gossiped and wondered as the stock of Selfridge's department store scooted from 31s. 9d. a share to 52s. 6d. in six months. Last week they heard the reason for the rise. Lord Woolton, chairman of the Conservative Party and of Lewis' Investment Trust Ltd., which owns a big chain of provincial department stores, had put in a $9,500,000 (?3,412,000) bid for the store. When Lord Woolton offered 65s. a share, Selfridge's Chairman Horace Holmes quickly advised his stockholders to sell. At the news, Selfridge's stock...
...surprising amount of ignorance about America. People here seem to think Americans eat nothing but steak and ride in enormous cars. Of course, that's nonsense." Then he went to work to plug his new book, Don Iddon's America (Falcon Press, London; 125, 6d), a collection of his columns which have been carefully edited with the wisdom of hindsight. Some still unedited Iddon items: ¶"The electric chair is working overtime and Sing Sing's Death Row is jammed as detectives round up gun-happy youths hepped up with dope." ¶"The sleeping-pill habit...