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Thirty-six years ago the Duchess of York, five years married and four years a mother, went down to Blackwall on the Thames below London docks to launch the 12,500-ton battleship Albion. Plunging into the water the great mass of steel piled up such a backwave that it swamped a landing stage on which 200 men, women and children were crowded. Nearly all of them were flung into the Thames. Fifty were drowned...
Many oldsters, water dripping from their hat brims, held their breaths, for technically the job of sliding the gigantic Queen Mary into the narrow Clyde was ten times as difficult as the launching of the Albion. But there were no accidents. It was all over in 75 seconds...
...Judge Albion W. Tourgee, publisher of the New York Continent ... is a presumptuous ass." ¶ "Mr. Edward T. Flynn, managing editor of the Herald, will probably enjoy a good vacation. . . . Lily Langtry's attentions to the handsome Mr. Flynn continue to be as marked as ever." ¶ "Mr. James Gordon Bennett . . . goes through life having 'as good a time as he can, according to his own ideas. . . . There are worse men in every dozen we meet...
When a pet black bear near Albion. N. Y. killed a child last year (TIME, Oct. 24, 1932), a New York law, effective last month, made lack of "due care" in protecting the public from animals a misdemeanor. In 1923 Connecticut outlawed the use of wild animals for soliciting alms or contributions. A 1927 amendment forbade roadside animal exhibits for commercial purposes...
...Kingston, Mich., about 225 mi. from Chicago, Dr. Erich Koerner & Richard Scheutz, Germans, descended into a watery ditch. At Albion, Mich., about 213 mi. from Chicago, Louise and Eleanor Hall, daughters of an Albion College professor, were summoned to interpret for two for- eigners who had come down in a balloon: Georges Ravaine & Georges Blanchet, Frenchmen...