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...Hyderabadis to dinner. Each one paid, according to the established custom, a door fee in gold and silver worth $50. The total take, $57,800, would pay his personal food bill for 395 years. Says his caterer, who was once maitre d'hotel at London's Grosvenor House: "The food he consumes in a day costs less than two bob [40?]." His presents are far from lavish. Last month his British adviser, Sir Walter Monckton, sent Richard Beaumont, a young secretary, to Hyderabad for some papers. As a gesture of gratitude the Nizam handed Beaumont a present...
...sponsored by the National Geographic Society, Cornell University and the Arctic Institute of North America and equipped with airplanes, motion picture cameras and other up-to-date gadgets, made a serious attack on the curlew's domestic privacy. Last week the exciting news was flashed to Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, president of the National Geographic Society, from Dr. Arthur A. Allen, head of the expedition: "We have found the curlew's nest." It was at 62° north latitude, 164° west longitude, near Mountain Village on the lower Yukon, 160 miles south of Nome. Dr. Allen promised...
Harvard Freshman 150's: stroke, Wells; 7, Barrett; 6, Potter; 5, Day; 4, Grosvenor; 3, Bordman; 2, Monslage; bow, Allen; cox, Osborno
...same schedule holds for Haines' Freshmen 150's who also open with the Techmen tomorrow. Reading from bow to stroke, the Yardling shell lists Sam Allen, Bob Menslage, John Bordman, Dick Grosvenor, Tom Day, Sutton Potter, Ted Barrett, and John Wells. Coxing will be Chuch Osborne. Four of these men--Allen, Menslage, Day, and Barrett--had never rowed in a shell before September--a fact which says plenty for the Crimson's fall-winter Freshman training program which yearling coach Harvey Love carries on each year...
Franklin D. Roosevelt, already memorialized in bronze in London's Grosvenor Square, will also have a place among England's immortals in Westminster Abbey. In the works: a tablet which will bear an inscription being composed jointly by Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee...