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...only say that Richard was a small, sickly infant, eleventh child of "quiet, solid" Richard, Duke of York. He was still a negligible, unnoticed boy when his big, handsome brother chopped his way to the throne as Edward IV. Richard became a Knight of the Bath and of the Garter. He was then nine. Next year he became Admiral of England. Ireland and Aquitaine. When he was 16, he wrote a letter asking a friend to lend him 100 pounds. That is substantially all that the records have...
...shows himself more garrulous by 29 words than in the original note in which the young officer of the IVth (Queen's Own) Hussars was moved to submit the book "with considerable trepidation to the judgement or clemency of the public.'' The aged Knight of the Garter adds for the current edition: "The intervening fifty-five years have somewhat dulled though certainly not changed my sentiments on this point...
...CRIMSON "I got no personal gain from the speech. I just had to get it off my chest. I am not seeking political office." During the more recent smokey years, the Committee has managed to produce some variety of spice including a bashful Dick Button's placing a garter about the leg of Miss Sweater Girl of 1952. The Smoker, however, has lost most of its old brashness, and much of the noise now comes from Al Capp who jokingly has insulted the Yardlings and protected the Wellesley Widows for the last two years...
...their Queen, Elizabeth II. It was the first durbar (gathering of the princes) since India's turnout for George V in 1911, and the first ever in Africa. Doing her best to match the expectations of her audience, the guest of honor wore an evening dress, bejeweled Garter sash, diamond tiara and an ermine stole. It was a narrow question whether her costume or the excited plumage of her subjects was more incongruous in the noontime tropical heat. But both parties plainly enjoyed each other's getup...
...catch something of both, he might have got results. Instead he took the easier course of choosing a single dramatic aspect-the tiger. He got nine short sittings in which to bag it. His studies on view last week showed a robed tiger in the Order of the Garter, a cigar-chomping tiger, a tiger weary unto death, and a fat but hungry tiger. Each clearly caught a mood. But by concentrating on the tiger, each missed the complex...