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Last summer, at Château La Cröe, his Riviera villa, the Duke set to work. In longhand, in red ink (he likes red ink), he wrote 50,000 words while his four raucous cairn terriers, tied to his table, kept him company. An un-raucous LIFE editor also attended him to make suggestions and keep reminding the Duke that the early life of a prince was not, as he kept tending to think, just like everyone else...
...main articles of furniture are the icebox and the telephone. . . . The main meal is held in the middle of the night in the kitchen, and consists of a glass of milk and cold chicken from the icebox. . . . The fauna of America consists mainly of the horse and the cairn terrier; now and then the discerning eye may detect, in the distance, a stampede of cows. The flora is largely confined to the orchid and the long-stemmed rose. The rose is a peculiarly interesting variety, having extraordinary lasting qualities and no thorns...
Hyperbole. In Victoria, B.C., Elsie Hamilton petitioned to have her name changed to Elsie Robin-Cairn Sherly Jane Mitchell Keith-Falconer Hamilton...
...Queen Elizabeth, out for a rural walk with George and the Princesses near Balmoral, crossed a brook in Glen Cairn, lost her footing and fell. Injuries: "Minor cuts & bruises" on the left leg. The doctor ordered rest for two or three days...
...University of British Columbia at Vancouver owes much of its existence to the sis-boom-ah of its galumphing student body. In 1922, fed up with government delays in providing permanent buildings, undergraduates marched eight miles to a wooded headland overlooking Howe Sound, heaved boulders into a cairn and started one of the handsomest campuses in North America. In subsequent years they have built a gymnasium, a playing field and stadium, a recreation hall...