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Mayors are memorable in proportion to the extent that they represent the popular conception of their cities. Should the Lord Mayor of London visit the U. S., none would be content if he failed to take with him some prancing coach horses, a mace, a port complexion and some coldstream guards. The mayor of Stamboul would have to produce a hookah out of his silk bloomers. By what tokens should the mayor of New York be known abroad? Tiaras, tabloids, and ticker tape? Chewing gum, checked suits, charged water...
...birthplace of Abraham, the joint digging of the Brit- ish Museum and the University of Pennsylvania was continued. Finds included records of kings unknown to history, who reigned in 3500 B. C. Their graves contained hoards of gold and copper spearheads (in bundles), chisels, arrows (by the quiverful), a mace, axheads, adzes, beads and pendants of lapis lazuli; a gold vanity box, complete with tweezers; a gaming board...
...membership of the club. These are Robert Douglas Donaldson 5E.S., of Lincoln; Raymond Thayer Bunker 4E.S., of Wellesley Hills; Carl Lawrence Carlson 4E.S., of Providence, R I; Robert Wilson Cushman 4E.S., of Sharon; Allen Jeffers Burdoin 3E.S., of Cambridge; John Coate Harrold 3E.S., of Dayton, O.; William Mace Hickey 3E.S., of Dorchester; Benjamln Slade 3E.S., of New Britain, Conn., and Henry Mayer Wilson 3E.S., of Louisville...
Next morning, the 400, their ranks swelled near to 1,500, entered cavernous Westminster Hall, ancient home of Anglo-Saxon Jurisprudence. Big Ben itolled; an impressive silence fell; the assemblage rose; the English Judges, richly dight, proceeded majestically behind the Golden Mace of the House of Lords and the Lord High Chancellor's purse-bearer. Motioned to their seats by the purse-bearer's Master, Lord Haldane, the U. S. barristers were formally welcomed, instructed in the legend and tradition of their surroundings. Here William Rufus had builded; here Coke and Bacon handed down...