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Somewhere in the Holy Writ an account is given of a man who had one little ewe lamb and some miserable scoundrel came and snatched it away from him. The fair city of Augusta had one little ewe lamb and TIME has come and snatched it away from her. The lamb was Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, who has visited the Bon Air for the past 20 years every spring, who is an honorary member of our Bar Association, who preaches to us every time he comes here, who is our chiefest drawing card and of social and educational value...
Died. Marie Augusta Davey Fiske (Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske), 66, Grand Dame of the U. S. stage; of heart disease; in Queens, Long Island, N.Y. Death came at the home of her secretary, whose mother cared for Mrs. Fiske's 10-year-old adopted son. In accordance with her fervent wish, announcement of her death was delayed 24 hr. No one saw her in her coffin. Only three persons attended her funeral. Born of a theatrical family, Mrs. Fiske began her career at the age of three; it extended, except for a four year retirement after she married Harrison...
...Angeles firm this spring. Next year, I will go straight through the school year. . . ." Observers recalled that the Davis Cup Committee had sometimes been more apathetic about the academic doings of potential team members. Four years ago, by summoning Davis Cup candidates to a training camp in Augusta, Ga. in March, it caused President Sumner Hardy of the California Lawn Tennis Association to accuse the U. S. L. T. A. of "making bums out of tennis players...
...Augusta, Ga. 41.4 Norfolk...
First cruise from a U. S. port was conducted by Hamburg-American Packet Co. in 1890, when S. S. Augusta Victoria sailed from New York to the Mediterranean with 225 passengers. Since then many a hard-pressed steamship company has turned to cruises to take up the slack in its regular passenger traffic. Last week 260 cruises planned for the 1931-32 season proved to be too many. Seventeen trips were cancelled, more were likely to be abandoned later. Withdrawn were seven West Indies sailings of Red Star's Belgenland, one each of Cunard's Carinthia and Caledonia, two Mediterranean...