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...Crown to answer on Judgment Day why there was never created Sir Rudyard Kipling or Lord Kipling? To his grave without a ribbon to stick in his coat or a peerage which would have died with him, the Empire sent last week a man whom an Empire poll even now would doubtless choose as the supreme poet of Empire...
Photographers watched every limousine hoping to catch Goelets, Vanderbilts, Astors. Sight was to see some of the box-holders making hesitant entrances, eager to be photographed, while others scooted quietly to their places. Mrs. Vanderbilt was there wearing her characteristic hair-ribbon...
...busy proving it in a bathing suit for publicity purposes. Among the gawpers was another publicity-minded person, fubsy, pink-chopped, little Harold Keates Hales, Member of Parliament who has achieved his place in the sun not by cavorting on a rope but by donating the Hales Blue Ribbon Trophy for transatlantic speed (TIME, July 29).*The final masterpiece in a career of diligent eccentricity which includes never blowing his automobile horn, this gaudy prize periodically places Donor Hales in the public eye. Two months ago he trotted happily off to Genoa to present it to the Italian Liner...
...days later, wearing his usual "jampot" collar, Donor Hales bustled back to the Normandie with many a shipping bigwig for a handsome luncheon and ceremony. Sutherland, as chairman of the Transatlantic Blue Ribbon Committee, took charge of the actual presentation, handing the huge globule over to bulky Captain Rene Pugnet of the Normandie along with a speech reciting the history of transatlantic crossings since 1492. Then Donor Hales clambered jovially to his feet, gave the speech he always gives, which usually begins: "The Haleses never amounted to much before...
...Nearly four feet high, the Trophy consists of a globe of the world perched on a winged Victory sprouting from a plinth of mottled yellow onyx. Festooned around the middle is a brightly enameled Blue Ribbon. Attached elsewhere are models of old galleons, pictures of modern liners, statues of Neptune & Amphitrite. Atop the whole confection is a winged figure called Speed lunging forward with a liner held high in his right hand, while his left straight-arms a crumpling figure called Force of the Atlantic...