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...venerable. Last week the only living U. S. citizen besides Calvin Coolidge who has been President of the U. S., reached his 70's-Chief Justice William Howard Taft of the U. S. Supreme Court, happy, healthy, at his summer home on Murray Bay, Quebec...
...they surrendered to the fog. In a farmer's field at Washburn, Me., the Sir John Carlmo came down undamaged. ¶ The same day the Royal Windsor jumped up from Windsor, Ontario, and headed east. Late that night a telephone tinkled tidings to tho world from St. Johns, Quebec. The Royal Windsor had landed with one wing afire. The blaze was extinguished. Regretfully Flyers Clarence Schiller and Phil Wood took from the ship a wreath marked "Nungesser-Coli" which they had hoped to drop as a memorial into the vast grey sea. ¶For nearly a mile a huge...
Itinerary. When Prime Minister Baldwin spoke of his "strenuous tour," he meant that he would travel throughout Canada in 18 days making 15 major stops. From Quebec his route and that of Their Royal Highnesses lay through Montreal (one day), the Canadian Capital at Ottawa (three days), then a cruise by private yacht up the St. Lawrence, by special train to Toronto (two days), and to Calgary, where Their Royal Highnesses would say goodbye to Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin and proceed to the nearby ranch of Edward of Wales...
...mother, Mrs. Anne ("Fifi") Stillman, is a gypsyesque person. On the Grande Anse estate in Quebec she moves about with her short dark hair in a bandanna and her legs bare and browned above mannish socks. She is a sort of Empress to the "primitives" of the surrounding wilderness. They do her lightest bidding because they regard her, informal and feline, as their equal on their own ground, plus much mysterious charm and knowledge from an unimaginable outer world of limousines, libraries, lingerie and grand manners. Her wealth seems fabulous to them, inspiring not envy but institutional faith. They prefer...
Married. James A Stillman Jr., 22, of Manhattan, son of James A. Stillman, onetime president of the national City Bank, Manhattan, to Miss Lena Wilson, 18, of La Tuque, Quebec; at his parents' summer home, Grande Anse, Quebec...