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...about to expire and they did well to get everything forehandedly settled. Last week. Buckingham Palace officially announced that His Majesty has been graciously pleased to appoint as Governor General of Canada Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, Earl of Athlone and Viscount Trematon, Knight of the Garter, Bailiff Grand Cross of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Grand Master of the Order of St. Michael & St. George, Governor of Windsor Castle and Personal Aide de Camp to George VI since his accession...
...mixture of monomers (methyl methacrylate, ethyl methacrylate, etc.) which hardens into a glassy plastic. In blocks of this stuff he immured small dead frogs, a tarantula, the bones of a human hand (see cuts); a rattlesnake's head, complete with fangs, a peacock feather, an iridescent butterfly, a garter snake, flowers, ears of corn, ears of barley. Secretary Wallace, Dr. Sando's chief, keeps a 13-inch ear of hybrid corn, forever young and fair, imbedded in Plexiglas on his desk. Spectators marveled last week at the realistic look of tiny hairs on the tarantula...
Prior to this catastrophe, Bert Wheeler bet his watch with a guy that Lee Dixon, premier lover of the U. S. fleet, could garner a garter from Miss Martin, premiere iceberg of the Republic of Panama. In the meantime, Miss Martin has fallen for her hero, and he for her, but when she learns of the wager, she calls the affair off until the final curtain...
...sold its own soul to Hellzapoppin: threw in wisecracks about F. D. R., created the impression of medieval monks doing the shag, started a Yale cheer, thought up lines like "Calling all angels." The result was a muddled farce which might well have been titled Getting Goethe's Garter...
Another account: Billy Patterson was a beloved Manhattan barkeep of the 1880s, who was felled one night as he left the Star and Garter's side door, by an unknown dastard with a blackjack...