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...protege's beautiful talk about the "new Hellenism" that he went on his knees, kissed Oscar's hand. No one enjoyed more than Ruskin and Pater the story of how Oscar had thrown four big athletes downstairs when they came to teach the "blue china cove" a manly lesson...
First Day. In a big, maroon, convertible sedan with the top down and the bullet-proof windows up, the King & Queen, having greeted Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and notables at the dockside, were whisked up the winding road from Wolfe's Cove to the old city over a circuitous route past battlefields, through cobblestoned alleys and over bedecked streets to the Provincial House of Parliament. Over the route Quebec's 140,000 inhabitants stretched thinly but politely, regarding the King curiously, but whispering of the Queen: "Qu'elle est charmante?" "Qu'elle est chic...
...four-day wait for the delayed royalty in Quebec. During those days they practically lived in the cool, dark, comfortable Terrace Club of the Château Frontenac, improving their dispositions with the mild distillates of the Dominion. When the Royal ship docked at Wolfe's Cove, the New York Herald Tribune's Edward Angly, the Times's Raymond Daniell and John MacCormac, the A. P.'s Frank H. King and U. P.'s Webb Miller appeared on the dock in morning coats and striped trousers. By the time the King and Queen reached Ottawa...
Died. Harold Irving Pratt, 62, financier whose father organized the original Standard Oil Co. with the original John D. Rockefeller; of pneumonia; in Glen Cove...
...than any other U. S. businessman, is famed for his judgment of the capital market-he invariably picks the right moment to float bond issues. Last week, after 48 years with the Pennsylvania, he gave up railroading, planned henceforth to chop trees and roam the woods near his Christmas Cove, Me. home...