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Four veteran hurlers will be on hand at the initial drill beginning at 2:30 o'clock. The returning men are Slim Curtiss, Tom Healey, Frank Foley, and Lefty Edinburgh...
...largest landowners in the British Empire; from his second wife, U. S.-born Patricia Ellison; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Grounds: desertion. The Ross divorce case has languished in British, U. S. and Mexican courts since 1924. In 1928 Lady Ross finally got a divorce in Edinburgh, only to have it canceled next year by the House of Lords...
...Cambridge, fellow students, hopelessly out-argued, called him Thomas Babble-tongue. In his sos he was a leading contributor to the powerful Edinburgh Review. At 30 he was an M. P., the most effective speaker in Parliament. Two years later he was the hero of the bitterly fought Reform Bill. At 33 he was a member of the supreme council of India. (Resigning five years later, Macaulay left behind a new Indian penal code and educational system, had saved ?30,000.) He became the most successful English essayist (sometimes so intoxicated with erudite digressions that he wound up lamely saying...
Onetime Tait Professor of Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh University, Dr. Darwin, 50, has been Master of Christ's College, Cambridge, since 1936. In 1931 he compared physics to "a mother who has just given birth to several healthy children, but has not yet recovered sufficiently to know what is going to happen next." Physics has given birth to several other children since then, and Physicist Darwin will try to deal with them all, since research in pure science as well as industrial work goes on at N.P.L. He will move into the palace with a wife and five real...
Died. Martin Bladen, Baron Hawke, 78, famed English cricketer, often captain of England's cricket team, longtime (1883-1910) captain-of Yorkshire; in Edinburgh. His heartfelt prayer ("I pray God no professional may ever captain England") has not yet been denied...