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...time, 60-year-old Lieut.-Gen. Sir George Sidney Clive has not lacked excitement. Bravely he served with Kitchener of Khartoum on the Nile, was decorated again during the Boer War, won the D. S. 0. during the World War, served as Military Governor of Cologne and as British Military Representative at the League of Nations. Last week in the comfortable security of his new London post as Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps, distinguished, elderly Sir George stepped into one of King George's state carriages to rehearse the procession for the Silver Jubilee Parade...
...name of John Hays Hammond means something to men-in-the-street of three continents, but probably not one in ten knows just what or why. Forty years ago Boer schoolboys, London clerks, Nevada miners knew the name well. For in 1896 John Hays Hammond, a prisoner under sentence of death in Pretoria Gaol, was a world headliner. From a news point of view, that was the apex of his career. But Convict Hammond has lived to tell a much lengthier, triumphantly anticlimactic tale. Last week he celebrated his Both birthday by publishing his autobiography. Oldster Hammond's report...
...British judge suggested last week that the facts did not amount to murder. The Boer jury pondered, brought in a verdict of guilty with a recommendation for mercy. The judge sentenced Mrs. Selwyn to twelve months in jail, her servants to one month. By that time the giraffe's injury to the telegraph line had been repaired and the news went...
...Forest Hills. Annoyed at being made to play his second-round match in an intermittent shower, Roderick Menzel amused himself by uttering Czechoslovakian epithets, tottering about at snail's pace between points. He was put out in the fourth round. Vernon Gordon Kirby, whose father fought in the Boer War, first gained world recognition when he defeated Baron von Cramm to reach the quarter-finals at Wimbledon this year. At Forest Hills last week he put Frank Shields out in the quarterfinals, only to lose to Perry the next...
Born in the Transvaal of a Dutch mother, an English father, Henry Landau's first vivid recollections are of the Boer War. Two languages were his by inheritance. German he acquired later as a boy at school in Dresden. In his travels about Europe he improved his French, picked up Flemish. He graduated from Cambridge where "scholastically I was a brilliant success," went in for engineering (Colorado School of Mines, London School of Mines). When the War came he joined an ambulance unit, was transferred to the artillery where he rose to a captaincy. When in 1916 British espionage...