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Lyman-Ayree Duel Looms...
...with calm Lady Oxford, who told him, "a broken heart is nothing but a bad digestion") wrote Caroline saying: "Correct your vanity which has be come ridiculous . . . and leave me in peace." Caroline had convulsions for a fortnight. She offered herself to any young man who would fight a duel with Byron. She put new livery on her footmen with buttons engraved: "Ne crede Byron" ("Do not believe Byron...
...Cowes is not only for aristocrats. By ferry and excursion steamer sporting England flocked to the Isle of Wight last week. What they came to see this year was the yachting duel between Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, Britain's No. 1 yachtsman, and Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, the American upstart who trounced him in U. S. waters in two challenges for the America's Cup (1934 and 1937). This year both were racing twelve-metre boats (half the size of Cup boats). Along the Esplanade as well as within the Royal Yacht Squadron gates, the No. 1 controversy...
Tale of a Lexington, Mass, pair of yokels whose romance is interrupted when a movie company invades the town and carries the girl to Hollywood, the show tells how Boy Beats Girl in an extra-inning moving-pitchers' duel...
Last month, a few days before he was formally received among the "forty immortals," Charles Maurras was challenged to a duel. Challenger was Jean Prouvost, publisher of Paris-Soir, whom Maurras had charged with "flattering the basest instincts of the masses." Maliciously courteous, Publisher Prouvost offered, in view of Maurras' extreme age and deafness, to fight any proxy he might name. Academician Maurras declined the challenge, but not because of old age. "So far as my age is concerned," said he, "M. Prouvost can rest assured that it has left me all my strength. But I shall not employ...