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...pleasure of Lord Beatty, Admiral of the Fleet, one Jonah Uden, a marine aboard the Battle cruiser H. M. S. Renown, was ordered recently to London and there instructed in the art of female hairdressing by a Court coiffeur. Last week Jonah Uden was pronounced capable of waving, marcelling, bobbing, shingling and shampooing. Proficient, he was ordered back to the Renown, where no woman...
...when T. R. H. the Duke and Duchess of York set out on the Renown in January to dedicate the new Australian capital Canberra (TIME, Aug. 23). With the Royal Duchess will travel two ladies in waiting: Lady Cavan and the Hon. Mrs. John Gilmour. Upon their heads Marine Jonah Uden will practice his art as the first naval coiffeur...
...Harvard 6 Prof. Mercier, sect. 5 Harvard 2 Government 12a Emerson D Greek 2 Sever 30 History 17a Sever 29, 31 History of Science 1 Sever 18, 23 Italian 1 Sever 17, 18 Mathematics A V Sever 35 Mathematics C I Prof. Osgood, sect. 1 Sever 36 Mr. Jonah, sect. 2 Harvard 3 Mr. Robinson, sect. 3 Harvard 3 Mathematics 3 Sever 24 Music 4 Pierian Rm. Glee Club Rm. Philosophy 13d Emerson F Philosophy 18a Emerson F Physics D Emerson D Physics 2a Emerson A Physiology 1 Sever 32 Romance Philology 3 Sever 13, 14, 19, 20 Social Ethics...
...years ago a Toronto writer faked a story of the discovery by two Swedish scientists, Drs. Smierkase and Butterbrod, of the skeleton of a fish large enough to have swallowed Jonah. Toronto papers refused the yarn, for "Smierkase" and "Butterbrod" too transparently mean "soft cheese" and "butter bread." However, at the Fundamentalist convention, the clever writer found his opportunity, sent the manuscript without comment to a Dr. Brown, who based his main argument for the authenticity of the Jonah story on this "discovery." Toronto papers this time reported Dr. Brown and his "proof." Then they were told of the hoax...
...present, it is confidently asserted that France cannot do otherwise than let the settlement of her War debts hang fire. Conflicting schools of prophets were battling wordily last week as to whether M. Caillaux would prove more of a Jonah to France "at large" than formerly...