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London's sidewalk artists reap a harvest of Sunday coppers by drawing Mrs. Simpson in colored crayon. Meanwhile King Edward at his snuggery declines to receive his friend and recent guest in Scotland, the Hon. Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, son of the No. 2 British Press Tycoon Viscount Rothermere. In his great, mass-conscious penny-press thunders Rothermere: "I have just returned from a trip around the world. . . . Everywhere unstinted praise and admiration of our King! . . . You cannot smuggle the greatest living Englishman off the throne of England during the weekend...
...batch of newspaper duty stamps was shipped out to the Colonies from England, deduced that the Louisiana tax law was not only unconstitutional but historically unsound. Last autumn three U. S. District Court judges sitting at Baton Rouge found for the publishers on the discrimination plea presented by Lawyer Esmond Phelps, a New Orleans Times-Picayune director, passed over Lawyer Deutsch's libertarian thesis. When Public Account Supervisor Alice Lee Grosjean took the case to Washington, however, Lawyer Elisha Hanson was assigned to urge the freedom-of-the- press angle. His brief substantially followed Lawyer Deutsch's original...
Donald Budd Armstrong, Jr. '37, of Searborough, New York, Perry James Culver '37, of Exeter, New Hampshire, John Howard Eric '37, of Stamford, Connecticut, and William Esmond Rowley '37, of Newton Centre, are Sophomore candidates for election to the Lowell House Committee, it was announced yesterday by Wilton S. Burton '36, secretary of the committee. Additional candidates for the election, which will be held on Wednesday, December 12, may be named by the presentation of a 25-signature petition to Burton before Sunday night...
...extract from Thackeray's "Henry Esmond" called "The Duke of Marlborough" is to be given next by Charles W. Yungblut, Jr. '34. After Yungblut's address, John Cromwell '36 will present "The Burial of the Dead" and "A Game of Chess" from "Wasteland" by Thomas S. Eliot '10, William E. Smith '35 will deliver Lincoln's "Second Inaugural Address...
...weeks ago Esmond Harmsworth (of the Mail) cabled Lord Beaverbrook, then returning from Africa, that the battle of gifts had broken all bounds of sanity; the Mail would welcome peace negotiations. Lord Beaverbrook promptly cabled one of his Express managers to represent him. The conferences started hopefully. The Herald proposed a modification of the free gift schemes, the Express and Mail assented. But not Sir Walter Layton of the News-Chronicle, tag-ender of the fight. He would accept no truce that did not end the gift business completely. The war went on again. Next day the Mail offered twelve...