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...four-day U. S. itinerary of Great Britain's King & Queen next June, went Captain Alan Frederick Lascelles (rhymes with tassels), the King's assistant private secretary. Asked if he were related to Henry George Charles Lascelles, Lord Harewood (rhymes with Gar Wood), brother-in-law of the King, he answered yes. "How?" ''Quite legitimately...
...English is ut? Th' Sassanachs wha beheaded King Chairlie an' gar th' Bonnie Prince hisel tae flee tae France. An' noo they'd commit th' sacrilege o' mudrerin' th' name o' th' Standard Bearer himsel. altho' weel they ken that when God or th' Empire want something hard dane, He or It send lor th' Scots...
...years since the Gar rick Gaieties, Rodgers & Hart have livened Manhattan with such hits as Dearest Enemy, Peggy-Ann, The Girl Friend, A Connecticut Yankee, and the five-in-a-row of the last three years. They have livened the whole U. S. with such songs as My Heart Stood Still, Ten Cents a Dance, Blue Moon, I've Got Five Dollars, There's a Small Hotel, With a Song in My Heart (Rodgers' favorite composition), The Lady Is a Tramp. In the 13 years, their shows have played everywhere from Wales to New South Wales...
...President had transformed himself into the Statesman of the Democratic Party and gone voter-wooing (see p. 7). The Vice President was puttering around his home in Texas, fishing for bass, gar and cats in the Nueces River. Congress had been gone three weeks. Most of the Cabinet were scattering for vacation.* Except for the Secretaries of State and the Navy, the only top functionaries of the U. S. Government left in hot Washington last week were the Spenders & Lenders...
...tanks began to pop. Soon the red-hot roof fell. When dawn broke, a cloud of smoke a mile in diameter covered a heap of debris, the charred skeletons of 22 private planes valued at $508,000. Among them were an Autogiro, taxiplane and big machines belonging to Gar Wood, James Mattern, Alexander P. de Seversky...