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...will be from ten to 25 guests at La Estancia. Harpo Marx came for a day, stayed a week. Two Chinese cooks, a butler, a second man, a maid for the cabins, take care of the guests, except at luncheon, which is prepared by Mrs. Norris herself in a picnic grove cookhouse...
...first ten miles. But on the second he went decidedly haywire, heading out to sea at right angles to the true course. None of the experts could figure what he was going. Some suggested he was going fishing; others said he was seeking a quiet place for a picnic lunch, with olives and devilled eggs and everything. Still others said he was simply a poor navigator and skipper...
...blissful German wine country no spot is more romantically gemutlich than Coblenz, where the smooth Moselle slips into the turgid Rhine and the wines of both rivers are at their best, plentiful and cheap. To this perfect setting for a mid-summer picnic, the Ministry of Propaganda brought last week half a million happy Teutons among whom strutted as guests of honor 150,000 Saarlander, nearly a quarter of the population of the Saar...
Patterned after the Cowal Games held annually at Dunoon, Scotland, for half a century to decide championships in Highland games, the Cowal Games of the U. S. started eleven years ago when Mr. Moore invited 30 Scottish friends to a free picnic. Three hundred appeared. The next year, Mr. Moore combined his picnic with an effort to raise funds for new uniforms for a bagpipe band, charged 50? admission. He had more guests than ever. The following year the Round Hill Scottish Games Association was formed to run the festival on Mr. Moore's estate. On Mr. Moore...
...good men and true make a jury in Alberta. Before them Miss MacMillan appeared as her own star witness in cool summer hat and frock. She faced the impassive Premier with a story of how at a picnic in tiny Edson when she was 18 he told her she was a very handsome woman, mentioned the opportunities for employment in Edmonton and said that Mrs. Brownlee would keep an eye on her if she chose to come to Alberta's metropolis. She came, got a secretarial job in the Attorney-General's office, and Mrs. Brownlee was always...