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...Northumberland?". . . "Who's for Rothermere?" Thus the cries, last fortnight, of partisans of two potent peers, goliaths of British journalism, engaged in a battle to the death. It was Northumberland v. Rothermere, 8th Duke v. ist Viscount, a Percy v. a Harmsworth, the ultraconservative London Morning Post v. the mighty Daily Mail. For battlefield they had unstinted columns of the two papers; for ammunition they used massed figures, of circulation, of advertising, of anything. Pained at the Daily Mail's persistent claims to a circulation of close to 2,000,000, Northumberland opened the war. With Ducal dignity...
Alan Ian Percy, Eighth Duke of Northumberland, Earl Percy, stoutly voiced the attitude of the landed peerage, saying: "The House of Lords is the last line of defense against the forces of anarchy and chaos. ... It would be folly to leave the Constitution of the House of Lords indefensible...
...very happy James Smithson of England sat down to write his will. He had half a million dollars but only a nephew to enjoy them. He was 61 and infirm. His father, the Duke of Northumberland, had never married his mother, a Tudor lady. He had spent his life less among men than in the pursuit of knowledge- mixing chemicals, examining minerals, pondering the earth's origin, improving oil lamps. He had never been in the U. S. but it occurred to him that in such a young country on such a rich continent at such an epochal moment...
Sailing July 2, immediately after the Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament at Philadelphia, on the 'Homeric', the Crimson and Blue teams will arrive in England in time to see the clash between the Yale-Harvard and Oxford-Cambridge runners at Stamford Bridge. Their first match is on July 11 in Northumberland. During the following week they will play at Yorkshire, Southport, and Manchester, where they will clash with Max Woosnam's team, composed of former Davis Cup players. On the next ten days, five matches, taking place every other day will be played in Wales. Queens, Portsmouth, and Hampshire...
Benjamin Franklin would have chuckled with satisfaction. From all over the U. S. and Europe they came, thousands of chemists, to his favorite city, Philadelphia. They flocked to the meeting of the American Chemical Society, founded 50 years ago at Northumberland, Pa., at the home of Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), discoverer of oxygen (TIME, Sept. 6). They were chemists who would discuss problems far more complex than charging a Leyden wet cell with current from an electrical storm conducted by a kite-string...