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...Victoria Station, within eight minutes' brisk walk of Buckingham Palace, there gathered last week several hundred British Laborites, led by the Right Honorable Arthur Henderson, to cheer and wave good-by to the Soviet Russian Chargé d'Affaires, A. P. Rosengolz, now banished with his staff from Britain by decree of the Baldwin Cabinet (TIME, June 6) backed by a Conservative majority in the House of Commons...
Citizens of the U. S. know about Buckingham Palace and Versailles, yet cannot, in the main, so much as pronounce the names of those even more costly and unique royal castles of Bavaria: Herrenschiem-see, Hohenschwangau, and Neu-schwanstein. From them ruled the Wittelsbachs, among the most ancient in lineage of modern Germanic kings, a family of genius often tinged with madness. Last week the head of this venerable and royal house, onetime Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, was visited at his Munich home by delegations of thronging, cheering Bavarians who hailed him as "King Rupprecht, our Rightful King...
...Senior shell was manned by the following: Stroke, J. D. Hall '27; 7, H. C. Pierce '27; 6, J. H. Olmstead '27; 5. E. A. Harper '27; 4, W. K. Rice '27; 3, H. V. S. Ogden '27; 2, J. J. Buckingham '27; bow. W. G. Moody '27; coxswain, E. W. Gross...
...Buckingham Palace came Sir James Matthew Barrie. Perhaps because most people think irresistibly of him as Peter Pan not-quite-grown-up, Sir James enjoys, even from Royalty, something like the indulgence accorded in every British heart to Peter. Therefore, last week, though 300 guests were present at the royal tea, Sir James approached the Queen-Empress and whispered a request in her ear, as even good little boys sometimes do with their grown-up hostess...
Before King-Emperor George V, waiting at Buckingham Palace last week, went 100 erudite men to retell, rhetorically, the world's obligations to Baron Joseph Lister, born just 100 years before, dead but 15 years. Said Sir Ernest Rutherford, President of the Royal Society: "It may well be doubted whether the scientific activities of any other man achieved as much for the saving of human life and the prevention and relief of the physical sufferings which afflict mankind...