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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Illiterates. A resolution asked that when the U. S. census is taken next year, it count the noses of children under ten who can speak no English...
Behind That Curtain (Fox). This melodrama about a girl of the British peerage who marries a peer murderer and runs away from him with a peer explorer is told partly in pictures but principally in words English, French, Hindu, Indian, Chinese. It is played by an orchestra, on reeds, on drums and a solo saxophone. It shows settings of the Khyber Pass, London, San Francisco, the Sudanese desert. It records the whirr of airplane propellers and another noise which sounds a good deal the same but is only camel-neighing. It contains love scenes, whiskey-drinking, and such lines...
Eight youths from Browne & Nichols, Cambridge, Mass. preparatory school, responded to the shrill yawps of a blond 13-year-old coxswain last week and won the Thames Challenge Cup in the Henley Regatta, second highest English rowing honor.* Not since 1922 when Walter Hoover of Duluth won the Diamond Sculls, famed single scull race, had the U. S. had so large a share in the glory that is Henley victory...
Spanish Flyers. Queen Victoria of Spain last week gave a formal luncheon to Commander Ramon Franco, Julio Ruiz de Alda, Eduardo Gonzales Gallarza. Spanish trans-atlantic aspirants, and their English rescuers (TIME, July 1, 8). A stayaway: Mechanic Sergeant Pedro Madariaga. Reason: Spanish court rules permit only members of the nobility or persons of high official rank to attend formal royal functions...
...late great William Ewart Gladstone was his close friend, as were Tory Stanley Baldwin, Laborite Ramsay MacDonald and, of course, Liberal Leader Lloyd George. But more proud is he of friendships among other journalists, those from competing and antagonistic newspapers. They call him "The Grand Old Man of English Journalism." Editor Scott still talks of the time Woodrow Wilson traveled to Manchester to pay respects on his last visit to England. Not wealthy, he resides modestly in suburban Manchester, browses there among his books. Each day he bicycles to the office, waving to friends as they pass. On a homebound...