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Thus transferred to Edward VIII was the genial nickname Scotsmen bestowed on his grandfather King Edward VII. Scottish authorities differ as to whether this venerable Sovereign was called "Good old Teddy!" because his figure somewhat resembled that of the popular Teddy Bear, created in the year of his accession (1901). From now on in Scotland 41-year-old King Edward is good old Teddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Teddy, Queen Mary & Buick | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

What the Curtis Cup is to women golfers, the Wolfe-Noel Cup is to women squash racqueters: a prize for a U. S. v. England team match, played alternately in England and the U. S. British squash racquets differ considerably from squash racquets in the U. S. The court is wider, the ball slower. Games are nine points instead of 15. Consequently the U. S. team which won the cup last year in Boston was at a considerable disadvantage defending it last week in London. However, not even onlookers who had seen members of the U. S. side being beaten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lady from Boston | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

...took just seven hours for Prosecutor Knight to restate his case. It did not differ from the one his father, as a State Supreme Court Justice, had previously upheld in vain. Hard-faced Victoria Price who, it was charged, had slept with hoboes in a Chattanooga "jungle" the night before the alleged crime, told for the eighth time in public how Patterson and the other Negroes had chased off her white "boyfriends" and raped her in the freight car-a tale long since repudiated by Ruby Bates, the other alleged victim of the attack. When the State rested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Get It Done Quick | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...Members differ emphatically on the correct pronunciation of the society's name, classicists holding out for the pure Greek Phee Bayta Kahppa, the 0 B K Senate insisting on the completely Anglicized Phy Beeta Kappa. To the disgust of purists on both sides of the fence, the National Council seems to be on the verge of authorizing the common hybrid Phy Bayta Kappa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Phy Beeta Kappa v. Phee Bayta Kahppa | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

Firewalking is a common practice in India, in the South Sea Islands, in the Shinto temples of Japan. Explanations of how it is done differ widely. But the performance in Surrey made news on two continents because it was done under the eye of scientists who came with thermometers as well as skepticism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Feet to Fire | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

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