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...only the great are painted by Britain's adept portraitists. Genteel humor has never been despised by the Royal Academy. Year ago Caricaturist George Belcher, who stalks about Chelsea in a large black hat and satin stock and who prefers char ladies and costermongers for models, made headlines at the Academy with a portrait of a fat man playing a cornet. Quick to repeat a good thing, he sent two similar portraits to this year's Burlington House. Best was Brother Fetch, a London commissionaire in full regalia of the Order of Buffaloes, elegantly curling his buffalo horn...
...Chicago W'orld's Fair, has become an annual feature of the big-league season. This year 16 players for each squad were selected by newspaper polls, five more by the manager of each side. Two million readers from 42 states sent in votes. Last week. Managers Char lie Grimm (National League) and Joe Mc Carthy (American League) announced their starting lineups...
Reading the diary of John Leverett, the first lay president, we learned that the tutors, or professors, were the Fellows of the college while the ministers of Watertown, Boston, Cambridge, Char- lestown, Dorchester, and Roxbury together with the members of the Governor's Council formed the Board of Overseers--hence their present day title of Honorable and Reverend Gentlemen...
...Glory be!" cried a delighted char, "she's prettier than the Duchess of York!" and this impression seemed to be general. Stepping into a big Daimler, George and Marina held hands on the short drive to St. James's Palace, waved their free hands at a surging populace which pelted flowers and roared "Welcome our Princess!" until excited Marina was seen to brush tears of joy from her eyes...
Born in Renville County, Minn. 44 years ago. Francis Shoemaker began to show insurgent leanings at 14 when he campaigned for farm organizations. He drifted to Panama to become a gang boss during the Canal's construction. A char ter member of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party, he was nominated for Vice President in 1924, declined to run. Ac tive in the steel strike of 1919. the packinghouse strikes of 1920, he was for six years editor of the People's Voice at Green Bay, Wis., is still editor of the Organized Farmer of Red Wing, Minn. Five...