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...equal of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt in effortless daily discharge of endless public duties has for years been the Empire's popular "Smiling Duchess," that aboundingly healthy Scotswoman who is now Queen-Empress Elizabeth. Suddenly last week His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for India, the Marquess of Zetland, announced that new King George had told him the scheduled Coronation Durbar at New Delhi cannot take place next winter for reasons having to do with Queen Elizabeth's "health." The official announcement voiced vague "hope" that in some other year the Durbar of George & Elizabeth...
Best of Buffalo's bronzes: two owls dated approximately 1122 B.C.; a gilt Buddha whose first private owner, the Empress Dowager's Viceroy Tuan Fang, acquired it by building a brand new temple for the monks who had guarded it; a group of Renaissance pieces from the Dreyfus collection, just bought by Andrew Mellon for his new national museum (TIME, Jan. 11); two Benvenuto Cellinis; David with the Head of Goliath, only known bronze by Luca della Robbia beside his famed doors for the Florence Cathedral; the earliest of six known figures by Daumier of "Ratapoil," his famed...
...Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson. N. Y.) have organized an expedition to study this little creature exhaustively for six months or more in its own scampering grounds. Some of the party sailed for Singapore last fortnight and the rest left Vancouver last week on the Empress of Japan. Base camps will be set up in Siamese valleys and Borneo jungles under the leadership of Harold Jefferson Coolidge. Harvard mammalogist and cousin of the late Calvin Coolidge...
...last week aboard the Empress of Japan, placidly ploughing across the China Sea to Hongkong, Commonwealth-President Manuel Quezon of the Philippines began to receive a steady stream of wireless reports. Before the day was out he had proclaimed a "state of calamity," had issued a decree appropriating $500,000 from the Commonwealth's scanty treasury for emergency relief. A South Pacific typhoon had just caused one of the worst catastrophes in Philippine history...
...panda, a six-week-old female 16 inches long, weighing 4 Ib. 12 oz. To capture it, Mrs. Harkness had spent $20.000. She hoped to sell it to a U. S. zoo for $15,000. But just as she was about to take it aboard the U. S.-bound Empress of Russia, Chinese customs officials seized it on the grounds that she had obtained no export permit. In near-hysteria Mrs. Harkness spent the night in the Shanghai customs house, nursing her precious cub from a bottle while the Empress of Russia sailed without her. After friends had helped...