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...fastest (16 hr. 33 min.) by Enrique Tirabocchi, Argentine porpoise-man. Channel water, however, is warmer than the Firth of Forth. (TIME, Aug. 20, 1923). The Hellespont, between Gallipoli Peninsula and Asia Minor-famed in fable for being negotiated by Leander, amorous Greek, and in romance because Lord Byron did it for all his maimed leg-is a paddle of only three miles...
...London, permission for the erection of a memorial tablet to George Gordon Lord Byron, English poet, was refused by Bishop Ryle, Dean of Westminster. Wrote the Bishop to the London Times: "Byron, partly by his own openly dissolute life and partly by the influence of licentious verse, earned a world-wide reputation for immorality. Among English-speaking people, Westminster Abbey primarily stands to witness for Jesus Christ...
Among the more notable of Lord Byron's intimates were Mrs. Spencer Smith, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lady Oxford, Lady Frances Wedderburn Webster, Claire Clairmont, Marianna Se-gati, Margarita Cogni, Countess Teresa Guiccioli...
...words, recently rediscovered by the British press, Byron would impiously...
Died. Gen. Byron R. Pierce, 95, "last surviving General in the Union Army during the Civil War"; at Grand Rapids...