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Last week, dressed in his black robes of state, trimmed with gold, and wearing the famous Chain of Esses (bequeathed in 1567 by ex-Lord Mayor Sir John Alen to the then Lord Mayor and his successors to "use and occupie yerely at and uppon principall and festival dayes"), Sir Alfred Bower, member of the Vintners' Company (14th Vintner to be elected Lord Mayor), athlete and bicyclist, rode in state from the Guildhall* to the Law Courts to be sworn in as Lord Mayor of London...
...Thursday morning, the University will be represented in the Clemens Medal Novice Foil Competition for fencers with less than two years of experience. Noll Morese '26 and A. R. Alen '26 of the Unive1rsity squad, with John Winder '27, number two man on the Freshman team, will compete for this title and Franklin Hollis, captain of the 1927 team, is a possible entrant...
Born to great wealth and high social position, Mr. Van Alen created many sensations in his long, hectic career. He was educated at Oxford; married Emily, daughter of William Astor, who died six years after the marriage; was made U. S. Ambassador to Italy by President Cleveland in 1893, but was soon forced to resign when it was discovered that he had contributed $50,000 to Cleveland's campaign...
Always a great lover of England, Mr. Van Alen equipped a Red Cross ambulance for the British Army during the Boer War and served in it himself. He was made a Knight of the British Division of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. His passion for things English earned him many an accusation of Anglomania in his own country...
Died. James J. Van Alen, " American Prince of Wales." (See page...