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YARD-WALES WINS YOUNGER SET." More dinners in the Inns that eve- ning-more mellow vintages and rare good fellowship. At the Guildhall, the Lord Mayor toasted Coolidge. Friday there were receptions at Sul- grave Manor, seat of George Washington's family; an Astor garden party; a reception in Westminster Hall by Lord Haldane and four onetime Lord Chancellors-Birkenhead, Cave, Finlay, Buckmaster. Saturday, Oxford and Cambridge Universities competed with the Naval Review at Spithead for entertainment honors. Brasenose College, Oxford, received payment of a 17-shilling debt entered in its books against Lawrence, father of George Washington...
More entertaining than the fight were the comments of W. O. McGeehan, sporting editor of The New York Herald, on events of the preceding eve- ning. According to McGeehan, Siki strolled into the Baltimore Hotel, Memphis, where Norfolk was sitting with a black girl. Siki advanced to pay his respects. Unhappily, Norfolk, ignorant of French, assumed insult. He stared at Siki with all the enthusiasm of the cold and clammy blackness of a coal mine. Siki started fighting on the spot. McGeehan deplored Siki's amateur attitude in this unbusinesslike proceeding. Said he: "If Siki goes around the country...
...first race at the Maisons-Lafitte track on Nov. 6, picking the winner of that and of the other five races, betting his accumulated winnings each time, he would have won 42,425,000,000 francs - more the entire banknote circulation France. The odds against the win ning horses were...
...choose Mrs. Hearst? Because she is the easiest way of win ning the Hearst press without swallowing William Randolph Hearst himself. He has often stepped on the toes of Tammany chieftains. He stands against the League of Nations and " Wilsonism." Mrs. Hearst, on the other hand, has stepped on nobody's toes. She has made herself popular by her public benefactions.. Only a few weeks ago she took a prominent part in Mayor Hylan's Silver Jubilee of Greater New York. She has always stood openly behind ex-President Wilson. And she commands the respect of the Hearst press...
Lloyd Georgian newspaper displaying a pronounced bias are not popular with the press, but the Allegemeine has accepted all of them. The Eve ning Standard published in although a constant supporter Lloyd George in Coalition days, refused to print his articles on the ground of impolicy. The only Lon don newspaper which continues print his writings is the Daily Chronicle, which was purchased from Lloyds by his political friends...