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Small but shrewd St. Albans tailed in last week behind the numerous English towns and cities which are raising funds for charity this summer by aping Coventry's famed Lady Godiva Procession & Carnival (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: P. Toms Vexed | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

Come one! Come all!! At St. Albans for sweet charitee the Lady Godiva will ride as God made her! Absolutely as He made her!! Come one! Come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: P. Toms Vexed | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

Exactly as advertised Lady Godiva rode through St. Albans last week, sticking out her pink tongue at the P. Toms. Her hair was short. She wore no tights. Each limb and contour could be seen-but now and then she barked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: P. Toms Vexed | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

Afterwards, to irate P. Toms the manager of St. Albans hospital fair adroitly explained why he had shown a white fox terrier bitch as Lady Godiva. "Some other towns, now, may not be like St. Albans," said he meaningly, "but our girls-bless their sweet hearts-are all good girls! Not a one in the whole town would show herself in tights and false hair. So's not to disappoint anyone I just named this little dog 'Lady Godiva,' and I guess you'll admit she rode the way God made her, except I scrubbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: P. Toms Vexed | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

Peter Arno, caricaturist (covers for the New Yorker), has a small daughter, Patricia. Last week she was vaccinated on the sole of her foot. Reason given by her mother, Lois Long ("Lipstick") Arno: ''Even if she becomes a second Lady Godiva, no one will think of finding a vaccination scar there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 10, 1929 | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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