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...Eager to embrace the middle-aged man who says he is George V's natural nephew (TIME, Dec. 25), a bevy of fashionably dressed English women turned up in London's famed Old Bailey last week and were kissed in impartial rotation by Prisoner Clarence Guy Gordon-Haddon before he entered the dock...
...plead guilty," gulped Prisoner Gordon-Haddon, "under extreme provocation...
...Dancer Fred Astaire. brother of Lady Charles Cavendish, were doing their light-footed, rubber-hipped dance from the musicomedy Gay Divorce. ¶Arrested three weeks ago for "uttering, knowing the contents thereof to be false, a letter demanding money from the King, with menaces," one Clarence Guy Gordon-Haddon, 43, unemployed engineer and War veteran, was committed for trial in Old Bailey court last week by a reluctant Crown...
...Gordon-Haddon could be and was ignored for years while he wrote letters to Their Majesties and to every public man in England claiming to be the natural son of George V's elder brother, the late Duke of Clarence. He was arrested only when he "menaced" George V as follows: "I am having made sandwich boards, giving the particulars of my case. I shall personally carry those boards about the streets of London in an attempt to secure Justice. I would be satisfied with enough money to start a modern boarding house...
Pleading "not guilty" last week Claimant Gordon-Haddon plaintively remarked: "I never had any criminal intention," was released in ?100 bail. ¶To the crew of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway's sample Royal Scot express train which last summer steamed around Canada and the U. S. and was exhibited at Chicago's Century of Progress (TIME, May 22), George V sent written congratulations which were read last week by L. M. S. Chairman Sir Josiah Stamp as the far-wandering Scot steamed into Euston Station...