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Last week in Nottingham, Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton, D. Sc., LL. D., F. R. S., distinguished zoology professor at Oxford, this year's president of the B. A. A. S., said: "The British Association provides a very favorable field for the discussion of many-sided subjects...
...Gris Nez, France, last week 22-year-old Thomas Blower, Nottingham factory hand, slathered himself with grease, slid into the chill water of the English Channel. Plowing the waves like a torpedo, he swam eleven miles in five hours, was four miles off the Dover breakwater in nine hours, met a strong southwesterly tide and was three hours covering the next two miles, finally waded ashore between Dover and Folkestone after 13 hr. 29 min. Twenty-third to complete the channel swim, Blower was 2 hr. 45 min. slower than the Bohemian mechanic, Venceslas Spacek, who set the record...
Belper by his first wife, the present Countess of Rosebery, at whose Town House the reception was held. Last year the Hon. Lavinia won the Nottingham Junior Lawn Tennis Championship, next broke her collar bone riding in a point-to-point race. Last week her father, Lord Belper, delighted the happy pair with a wedding present of a fine brood mare, but knowing Viscount & Viscountess St. Davids bestowed the gift supreme: 24 volumes of the Blood Stock Breeders Review. In the friendly atmosphere of English tenantry toward their Duke no less than 94 ash trays and 61 lamps came...
...mother taught the girl that the two most important things in life were to paint and to be independent. Laura tried to draw from early childhood. Sent to her aunt's in St. Quentin, she copied portraits in the illustrated magazines of French generals and statesmen. Back in Nottingham at the Art School, she was barred from life classes because they were open only to men, was put to drawing from plaster casts. The local burghers invariably called her worst pictures masterpieces, tried to get her to do their portraits. Self-supporting in Nottingham, she gave private art lessons...
...Nottingham's famed Goose Fair, a combination of autumn market, circus and racetrack, left the happiest childhood impression on Laura, had much to do with her delighted discovery of circus subjects soon after the War. She traveled with circuses, became the firm friend of England's late great clown, Whimsical Walker, and a dappled grey circus horse named Hassan, both of whom she repeatedly painted. Of the circus she says: "I love the freedom of it all. . . . The flapping of canvas is like the sound of gunshot- there's nothing in the world to compare with...