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...send boys and girls to college not because that is the time in which they learn best, but because we ourselves have learned no better place to send them during that period of callow, unformed youth." With these words the conqueror of the Tennysonian Galahad continues his illusion-shattering march...
...ordered to make an equestrian statue of Lord Haig he was really intended to glorify the British armies which the Field Marshal-distiller led. Accordingly he designed a heroic figure, stronger, stockier than Douglas Haig ever was, astride a monumental beast like a horse of a Roman conqueror...
Into the London bankruptcy court marched Henry William Montagu Paulet, 16th Marquess of Winchester, head of a family which came to England with William the Conqueror. Land-poor after the War, he had sought employment. Clarence Hatry (stock swindler whose failure precipitated the 1929 stockmarket crash), gave him a $75,000-a-year job as "director." Later Lord Winchester resigned because he "did not agree with [Hatry's] methods of business," but he was nevertheless held responsible for the sale of some fake stocks. To pay these debts, the Marquess speculated, was caught by 1930 bears. Last week...
When an organization called the Southern Grasslands Hunt & Racing Foundation bought 15,000 acres of bluegrass land in Tennessee for its members to hunt and race over, it was announced that this was the biggest tract made safe for private chasing since William the Conqueror set aside New Forest (TIME, Jan. 29). Prime mover of the Grasslands project was Joseph Brown ("Joe") Thomas, 51, a hunting gentleman of great determination and self-expression. A major in the War, a mining man by profession, Mr. Thomas has not been happy hunting at Middleburg, Va. and on Long Island. His brusque manners...
Ever since the DO-X, when enroute to Bordeaux, fell 25 mi. short of her destination and was towed the remaining distance, there have been rumors that the twelve Curtiss Conqueror engines had not served well enough to warrant a transatlantic flight. These rumors the Brothers Dornier, Claude and Maurice, vigorously denied. But finally they did concede that bad weather on the Azores-Bermuda route had upset their plan to fly to New York. Instead, they planned to send the DO-X across the South Atlantic to Brazil. At that juncture Lieut. Clarence H. ("Dutch") Schildhauer, U. S. copilot, resigned...