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...David Graham Muschet Campbell's favorite boast that by Gad, sir, he knows how to ride a fractious horse. A Major-General, a K. C. B., Governor of the colony of Malta, his proudest moment was that spring day in 1896 when he won the Liverpool Grand National, a gentleman jockey, on The Soarer. In 1931 he was sent to handle a very fractious horse indeed, the island of Malta. Malta is Britain's most important naval base in the Mediterranean, but Malta is only 60 miles from Italy. Hundreds of Italian emigrants have settled there; most Maltese...
Married-Gwendolyn, only daughter of famed Tenor John McCormack; and Edward Pyke, Liverpool businessman; in London. Hordes of Londoners pressed into Brompton Oratory to hear Tenor McCormack sing the Ave Maria ("the song of my life...
Jovial Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington, Negro jazz-band leader, back in Manhattan after a two-month concert tour in Europe (TIME. June 12), declared the Prince of Wales had missed a train to hear his orchestra play in Liverpool. Said he: "Next time I saw the Prince of Wales was with a party of grand people in London. He says to me: 'I stayed over in Liverpool to hear you play.'Well, sir, what a fine spot for me to tell him, 'You're tellin' me, Prince, with 5,000 people banging on the doors...
Travers was an architect. He built vulgar edifices for the masses, which made him money and a reputation but somehow did not satisfy him. Travers was also a bit fuzzy. Returning from a trip to the U. S. he is met by his pretty young wife at Liverpool. Travers wanders off to buy a book, becomes innocently involved in a street brawl, is taken in tow by a mysterious florist in the pay of the internationally omnipotent Lord Snarge...
...orthodox rhythms. But this summer Europeans will have a chance to hear hot, pulsing jazz played as they never have heard it before. Last week on the S. S. Olympic Negro Edward Kennedy (''Duke") Ellington sailed with his 14-piece all-Negro band to play in London, Liverpool, Glasgow, later on the Continent...