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...Rotarians, who voyaged on an excursion to Ostend, Belgium, for the Rotary International convention (TIME, June 6), listened with rapt attention to King Albert of Belgium last week. His Majesty, himself a Rotarian, praised the U. S. delegates "whose crossing of the Atlantic-the Atlantic which your fellow countryman, Captain Lindbergh, crossed alone in some 30 hours-is indeed an important event. It proves the strength of Rotarian feeling and co-operative spirit...
...Cunard liners cleared from Manhattan last week bearing 3,000 much-maligned souls to Ostend, Belgium. From various quarters of the globe other ships bore 5,000 more souls, equally maligned, to the same destination. They were the world's Rotarians and?as they call their wives?Rotary Anns, off to their annual international convention to promote the Sixth Object of the Rotary...
With 130,000 Rotarians and nearly as many Rotary Anns behind him, and 8,000 of them actually crying "On to Ostend" last week, what wonder that founder Paul Percy Harris writes...
...From 22 to the dollar (TIME, March 29) to 43 to the dollar last week. †He personally commanded the so-called "northern army group," consisting of both Belgian and French soldiers, which drove the Germans from Thourout, Ostend and Bruges, toward the end of the World War. During the whole War he remained with the Belgian army in the field, was often under fire, flew several times over the German lines...
...dinner-clothes seated on each side of a black and white board; in California patios, in drawing-rooms overlooking the Grand Canal of Venice, in the smoking-car of the Florida Sunbeam, and on the glass verandas of the hotels that front the long sea-promenade at Ostend, the game is played...