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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...More on parade than the parading Scouts last week were Bigwigs who came complacently to watch. Birthday greetings were pronounced by the Duke of Connaught, who was, Scouts had been told, uncle to King George V. English Scouts soon forgot their recent jibes of "millionaires" when Mortimer L. Schiff (Kuhn Loeb & Co.), U. S. Scout vice president, presented a $50,000 check to them, "for the advancement of the British Scout movement...
...born in Czechoslovakia, raised in Moscow, has lived in Hastings for the last five years. She was a chess pupil of Geza Maroczy, brilliant Hungarian Master, who is also playing in the Carlsbad tournament. Miss Menchik has been acknowledged best woman player since 1927. She played in an English-Russian tournament in England this spring and finished in a tie for second place. Miss Menchik lost her first two games in the Carlsbad tournament. It is safe to say that whatever victories she wins will be well earned, as chess professionals are notable for their complete lack of anything approaching...
...bright sands and in the bright water at Cape Gris Nez (grey nose), France, were, last week, the U. S. Zittenfeld twins, 15. There, too, were the English Misses Ivy Hawke, Joan Brunton. Molly Parker and Connie Gilhead-channel swimmers all. There, too, fattest, most bulbous, most famed, was Mrs. Myrtle Huddleston (240 lbs.), who last year remained afloat for 54 hours in a Bronx pool, finally being pulled out in a state of limb-swollen collapse. Worthy water-mates for her roamed also about the beach-an Egyptian, black and gigantic, named Ishak Helmy and a German whose name...
London's Westminster Cathedral (Catholic) became unique among English edifices last week with the installation of a 185 ft. elevator, similar to those in U. S. skyscraper churches. Before the public was admitted, His Eminence Francis Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, entered with the cathedral clergy, rode with dignity up and down...
Engaged. Miss Eileen Bennett, English tennis player; to Edmund Fearnley Whittinghstall, 28, English portrait painter...