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Mumps broke out among Their Majesties' sturdy Highland retainers at Balmoral Castle last week, caused Queen Mary to postpone abruptly the annual Royal Scottish Servants' Ball. Knowing how dangerous mumps can be to a full grown male, Her Majesty ordered all mumpsful Scottish gillies tucked promptly into...
...doubt that she loved him: she had several children to prove it, and in Scotland in those times (early 19th Century) speculation about "love'' was not encouraged. But the hard winter trip to their new home discouraged her, and when they were settled in the little Highland fishing village she did not find it cheerful. The people were dourly suspicious and backslid into heathenry at the slightest excuse; the weather and the scenery were both melancholy. Hamish's days were excitingly full of preaching, coaxing, denunciation; Allison found time to wish there were something more. Then came...
...course, the Century of Progress, which on Sunday broke its previous attendance record (272,000 on Aug. 25) to ring up 361,000 paid admissions and rang up another 240,000 Monday when Recovery Administrator Hugh Johnson talked on Labor. But Chicagoland had much else to offer. In suburban Highland Park Virginia Van Wie retained her women's national golf title (see p. 42). In suburban Glenview, 30,000 a day watched the four-day International Air Races (see p. 44). At the Morrison Hotel holy men gathered for the World Fellowship of Faiths conference...
...four years, most of the prizes for women's golf in the U. S. have been going to four young women of whom three--Virginia Van Wie, Helen Hicks and Maureen Orcutt-were in the field for last week's national championship at Exmoor Country Club in Highland Park. Ill. The fourth-Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare I-was more interested in her new baby than in golf. But there was someone to take her place: angular Enid Wilson, a tall, plain, extraordinarily placid English girl who has won her own national championship regularly for the last three years...
Special trains can go special places. One afternoon last week five sleek Pullman cars backed into the little West Shore R. R. town of Highland, N. Y. Late that evening President Roosevelt, crossing the Mid-Hudson Bridge from his Hyde Park estate, boarded the train and it sped down the river to Weehawken. In the dead of night, under heavy police escort, the five Pullmans threaded their rumbly way through mazy miles of freight yards which had not seen a passenger train, much less a Presidential special, in 40 years. They finally emerged on the Baltimore & Ohio tracks beyond Jersey...