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...Examine my daughters!" commanded Alfonso XIII, moody Last of the Bourbons, recently in London. Since his flight from Spain the ex-King has been thinking furiously about family matters, resembling in that respect fabled King Lear...
Brown Freshmen--P. Romane, Floren, l.e.; F. Romano, Offen, l.f.; Lear, Ricch; l.f.; Fraad, c.; Felt, r.g.; Gammano, r.t.; Chapin, r.e.; Pebon, Peterson, q.b.; Groce, r.h.; Rurt, Cass, Heushaw, l.h.; Karabari...
Alone at the stern of his yacht Sabalo steaming from New York Harbor toward Chesapeake Bay one evening last week, sat Van Lear Black, publisher of the Baltimore Suns,? puffing an after-dinner cigaret. He was perched upon the after-railing?his favorite stance, against which others were forever cautioning...
...Lear Black, onetime clerk, raised himself through the grades of business and finance to the directorship of banks, shipping companies, insurance firms, was longest identified with Baltimore's Fidelity & Deposit Co. Known as the richest man in Maryland (he was insured for $750,000), he could easily afford to indulge his hobbies, chief among which was traveling by airplane. In his private planes, with two pilots whom he originally borrowed from Royal Dutch Air lines in 1927, he flew approximately 130,000 mi. in all parts of the world...
...Lear Black's role of newsman was in a sense vicarious. He was No. 1 man of the company which owns the Suns, but he knew his professional limitations and left the conduct of the papers to trained hands. Yet he liked to be known as a newsman and was an attendant at dinners of Washington's Gridiron Club. A steady source of "copy" while alive, he became in death something nearly approaching the perfect news story...