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...Both the Duke of Gloucester and his fiancée, Lady Alice Scott, are keen motorists, and it is no secret in Selkirkshire that their engagement was largely the outcome of their joint motoring trips in the beautiful Border country during the past two years...
...very careful driver. She is not fond of speed and seldom travels at more than 30 miles an hour; this being one of the reasons why her semi-invalid father, the Duke of Buccleuch, prefers her as a driver to any other member of his family. Another keen motorist in the family is Lord George Scott, the Duke's youngest son, who is often seen driving along the Border roads in a 20-h.p. Armstrong Siddeley...
...Broadway successes new to Boston as well as original plays of merit at prices well within the reach of all interested in the legitimate theatre can fill this need. "This company must present legitimate dramas of the highest type; it must select plays and players with great care and keen constantly changing the members of the casts; and finally, it must please the public by giving them what they want; a so-called "stock company" will not fulfill this...
Being an ex-railroad man and familiar with the accuracy of TIME, also LETTERS, the writer had a chill of fear for the safety of the Presidential party on their recent cross-country jaunt. In the picture of Engineer Britton looking [TIME, Oct. 7] straight ahead with keen eye and steady hand on the throttle lever, it appears very much as though the reversing gear is set to send the locomotive and its burden in the opposite direction, quite a dangerous practice on any railroad...
...State." What Is Herbert Hoover? In the Republican equation for 1936, Frank Knox is a potent known quantity. Alf Landon is a potential quantity. Herbert Hoover is Quantity X. Herbert Hoover may utterly lack human plasticity. But no one familiar with him ever denied that he has a keen mind and is capable of at least one passion, that of anger. Ever since he left the White House two years and seven months ago, he has been nursing a pair of first-string grudges: against the personality and policies of the man who defeated him and against those...