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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King Edward, motoring in from his suburban snuggery (where Mrs. Simpson and her chaperon Aunt Bessie have been with him several nights each week), blows off steam at Buckingham Palace by rejecting a new set of designs for British Army uniforms. He chats about Polar conditions with Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, who afterwards calls His Majesty "cheerful" and denies they talked about selling the King's money-losing Canadian ranch. Edward VIII does the duty of dubbing an Indian politician knight (name: Ramaswami Srinivasa Sarma), and is icily angry when perspiring Mr. Baldwin rushes in, soon rushes off hatless again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Edvardus Rex | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

Released by Channing Ellsworth Sweitzer, the association's large, able, 48-year-old managing director, was this explanation: "The board of directors has submitted the resignation . . . effective immediately because of inadequate representation for retailing in the council of the Chamber and a lack of recognition of the importance of retail trade, which has an annual volume of approximately $35,000,000,000." Applauded Publisher Julius David Stern's Philadelphia Record: "The C. of C. has misrepresented the businessmen of this country long enough. The C. of C. brought businessmen into unmerited disrepute by its short-sighted selfishness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: N.R.D.G.A. from U.S.C. of C. | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

Colored movies with sound will be shown by Ellsworth S. Grant '39 in the Junior Common Room of Eliot House at 7:30 o'clock on Wednesday, after the weekly House dinner. The title of the travel pictures is "The Mediterranean and the British Isles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mediterranean Movies in Eliot | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

Fred Perry of England, world's No. 1 amateur tennist, revealed that, as a professional, he would next month play topflight Professional Ellsworth Vines in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 16, 1936 | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

Favorite advertising of U. S. filling-station owners is a zoo. Favorite animal in George Langley's filling-station zoo near Ellsworth, Me. was a big black bear which he had raised from cubhood eleven years ago, taught to roll over and sit up for peanuts. One morning last week when Langley went into the pen to give the bear breakfast it pounced on him, chased him 100 yd., knocked him down, mauled him to death. When Langley's hired man ran up with a shovel, the bear killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Bad Bear, Good Bear | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

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