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Lady Belper never liked the small painting of Christ in the library of her home, Kingston Hall in Nottinghamshire. When villagers asked her to contribute something to their jumble sale last winter she thought she'd "get rid of it once and for all." She tagged the picture at a few shillings and sent it off. But bargain-hunting villagers didn't give it a second glance. Back it came to its donor...
...Cricket Club yesterday elected new officers for next year. Bruce M. Cheek 2PA will serve as president of the club and Bruce M. Bogin '52 as secretary. Edward Philip George Seaga '52 of Kingston, Jamaica, B.W.L., and Eliot House will captain the cricket team...
Your otherwise very excellent and illuminating April 16 article on Mr. Crawford Greenewalt and the Du Pont enterprises fell to a new low on the local market because of the spelling of the name of our town. It is Kinston, not Kingston. This has been true since Revolutionary War days...
...town was founded as Kingston, but, as a part of its all-out war effort the "g" was dropped. Local legend hath it that this effrontery was the main reason for the madness of George...
...Pont is now completing a new plant at Kingston, N.C. to put Dacron into mass production in 1953. The fiber may well do to wool what nylon did to silk...