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...winning recipe for "Vegetable Tomato Soup" (enough to serve eight) crowned by Buckingham Palace's Chef...
...Women's Championship for the first time, in 1923, against nutbrown, iron-muscled Molla Biurstedt Mallory. By 1927, after Suzanne Lenglen had turned professional, Helen Wills, at 21, was admittedly the ablest amateur woman tennis player in the world. In 1929, she was presented at Buckingham Palace in a shin-length ivory satin dress, exhibited her paintings in London, won the Wimbledon title for the third time, married Frederick S. Moody Jr. So good was she that, for the sake of excitement, all tennis experts could do was look for her closest rival. They found one near at hand: Helen...
...seemed odd to aspirants in various parts of the U. S. who have been turned down for this year's Silver Jubilee Courts that three slips of girls from Atlanta, Georgia, two of the sub-deb age, should be presented at Buckingham Palace by sweet-faced Mrs. Bingham. Last week the reason seemed clear and harmless to a degree. In the line of duty Their Majesties are prepared to receive almost any female against whom nothing is positively known and who is sponsored by her country's envoy. In the South good Squire Bingham has few cronies closer than Judge...
Last week Judge and Mrs. Bryan were house guests of Ambassador and Mrs. Bingham as Southern hospitality opened wide the door of Buckingham Palace and the three "Georgia Peaches" sailed in to drop deft curtsies to Queen Mary. King George was in bed with catarrh at Sandringham, the Duke of York in bed with a cold at No.145 Piccadilly...
...dais not far from Her Majesty was the swart, striking young Emir Saud, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and smoldering-eyed son of that kingdom's tall, ascetic founder and autocratic ruler, His Majesty King Ibn Saud. As usual, the Buckingham presentations were of no significance, but men who know the Near East saw a sign and portent of British prestige in Arabia's great new State as its Crown Prince took his respectful stand near the Queen-Empress...