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...each day; but the "circulation" was begun at 250. For weeks these were hungrily grabbed up by collectors who now value Vol. I No. 1 at $10. Recently the number was cut to 150. There are about 30 paid subscribers, also chiefly collectors, libraries, universities. Subscriber No. 1 is Kent Cooper, general manager...
...Golf Championship. One of the two, Enid Wilson, an inch over six feet tall, had won the medal. She had beaten Elsie Corlett who had put out the only American girl in the tournament in the third round. The other, a head shorter, was Wanda Morgan, who lives in Kent, likes to paint, was unknown as a golfer till a year...
Last April Charles William Anderson Scott, a rangy young man who was once champion boxer of the Royal Air Force, landed his Gipsy-Moth at Port Darwin, Australia 9 days 3 hr. 20 min. after leaving Kent, England. His time just beat the record of Wing-Commander Kingsford-Smith; but Lieut. Scott wearily declared: "I wouldn't make the attempt again for a million pounds." Last week Lieut. Scott arrived back in England. His time from Australia was 10 days, 23 hr.-nearly two days better than Kingsford-Smith's record for that direction. Ill from exhaust fumes...
Engaged. Elizabeth Brinton Kent, daughter of Arthur Atwater Kent (radios) of Philadelphia; and William Laurens Van Alen,* member of the Oxford-Cambridge tennis team which played against Yale-Harvard at Newport in 1929, descendant of the first John Jacob Astor, grandson of the late Ambassador to Italy James J. Van Alen...
...adopted younger daughter Virginia whom they call "Ginnie." Carefully reared, she does not smoke. Her presentation at Court was arranged as a "surprise," Mrs. Dawes keeping the secret for weeks. When told, Ginnie became "quite excited." She went to Roycemore School in Evanston, Ill., now attends Broadstairs in Kent, will go next year to a school in Paris. Frank, impulsive, vivacious, she is a pronounced brunette, eyes almost black, sparkling. With horse or tennis ball she is tolerably adept. Friendly, she is a firm friend of eloped brother Dana, no blood...