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...Mall and along the entire six-mile route of the coronation procession, Londoners and gawk-eyed visitors cheered London's bright new look. For months, the old city had looked as untidily unattractive as a dowager in a wrapper, curlers and mudpack. Statues were boarded up, the handsome old clubs in St. James and Pall Mall were defaced with iron scaffoldings, half of Westminster Square lay awash in cold rows of unpainted platforms and stands. But as if on signal last week, the curlers and mudpack came off, and London glowed with color and excitement. The official coronation decorations...
...boys' dormitory. The lads responded by dousing the girls with water. A few of the girls even managed to get pulled into the boys' shower, from which late bathers were forced to beat a hasty retreat. Other girls "were dragged across the campus, given long and generous "mudpack" treatments at convenient puddles. Swarthmore police were interested but inactive spectators...
Elizabeth Arden Graham (they call her "Miss Mudpack" around the stables) needed Knockdown's win. Her prize trainer, shrewd old Silent Tom Smith, was suspended for a year for giving a horse ephedrine (TIME, Nov. 19), and three of her best horses have broken down since son Jim Smith took over. Last week, when Miss Mudpack's horses finished first and second at Santa Anita, old Tom was not there. He could not come near the track, but there was no law against a father talking...