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...Pennsylvania. Here until his death in 1914 lived George Washington Vanderbilt, studying the dialects of the American Indian in his ornate library, helping his North Carolina tenants with their farming, issuing mildly autocratic decrees. He willed Biltmore to his only child, Cornelia, who was destined to wed the Hon. John Francis Amherst Cecil. Last week she graciously agreed to admit the U. S. public to her domain...
...abiding are post-war Britons that the number of British prisons has been reduced by 27 since 1911. Last week Home Secretary Rt. Hon. John Robert Clynes proudly announced that still more British jails were for sale. Offered at bargain prices were Maidstone Prison, formerly used for first offenders, convicts under 21, and Pentonville Prison, where the Irish patriot Sir Roger Casement was shot...
Died. The Hon. John Bowes-Lyon, 44, brother of the Duchess of York, at Glamis Castle in Scotland...
...spectators forgot for the moment that Kemp-Welch and Cambridge were only the second English team. They remembered this next day when Dr. H. W. Leatham and his partner, Lord Aberdare, who with another partner won the national U. S. doubles championship two years ago when he was the Hon. Clarence Napier Bruce, stepped on the court long enough to give Kemp-Welch and Cambridge a brisk lesson and lift the title...
Last week in Manhattan, Bennington College sponsors, with more than $1,000,000 pledged, planned to precipitate the last $1,500,000 drive. They hoped to break ground for the buildings in May, start operating with no freshmen in September 1931. Invited to preside was the Hon. John William Davis, onetime (1918-21) Ambassador to Great Britain, onetime (1924) Democratic Candidate for President. Also invited were President Ernest Hatch Wilkins of Oberlin College and President Mary Emma Woolley of Mount Holyoke. Bennington's own President Robert Devore Leigh, procured two years ago from nearby Williams College, was there to explain...