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Almost any afternoon in that rainy fall of 1771 you might have seen Oliver Goldsmith wandering out along the lanes of Hendon and Edgeware. From his aimless gait and the doleful expression on his face you would scarcely have guessed that he was busy concocting a new farce-comedy. But that's what he was doing. As yet it had no name, and the chances of its ever seeing the lights of London were none too good. Especially since Goldsmith got along so poorly with the theatre managers--Garrick of the Drury Lane, and Coleman of the Covent Garden...
Charles Francis Adams, onetime Secretary of the Navy; Newton Diehl Baker, onetime Secretary of War; Joshua Reuben Clark Jr., onetime Ambassador to Mexico; Laird Bell Chicago attorney; Hendon Chubb of Manhattan's insurance firm of Chubb & Son; W. L. Clayton, Houston cotton tycoon; John Cowles, Des Moines publisher; Herman Lewis Ekern, onetime Attorney General of Wisconsin; Philip La Follette, onetime Governor of Wisconsin; Mills Bee Lane, Savannah banker; Frank Orren Lowden, onetime Governor of Illinois; Orrin K. McMurray, Dean of the University of California's law school; Roland Sletor Morris, onetime Ambassador to Japan; John C. Traphagen. president...
...British planemakers have designed four types of "interceptors," 200 m.p.h. single-seat fighters which can rise like rockets, climb to 15,000 ft. in eight minutes. The British public had its first chance to see day bombers and interceptors in the air at the R. A. F. exhibition at Hendon on June 28. The British General Staff had a much more practical demonstration last week during the R. A. F.'s three-day maneuvers...
...London. His marriage in 1916 to Ethel Grace Levey, divorced wife of George M. Cohan, has resulted in making his villa at Palm Beach, "Miraflores," the Mecca of numerous vacationing thespians. Hence there were many who rejoiced last week at Mr. Grahame-White's success in selling his famed Hendon Airdrome at London to the British Government...
...increased appropriation announced by the Premier, England's air forces will be far behind those of France in number of squadrons and men. But perhaps the most effective British reply will be in the line of superior technical achievement. Spectators of the Royal Air Force pageant at Hendon, London, were given during the week a remarkable exhibition of the most recent military planes. Among other exhibits was a bomber equipped with a single engine of 1,000 horsepower, the most powerful airplane engine in the world, which can beat in speed and climb any bomber ever built...