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Tourists, but not native Hawaiians, are impressed by the name of Duke Kahanamoku. The onetime (1912, 1920) Olympic swimming champion, surfboard rider, swimming instructor and Waikiki Beach figure was simply christened "Duke," is no member of the islands' decayed nobility. But as a result of last fortnight's election, Duke Kahanamoku became peace officer of an area far larger than any dukedom. Democratic votes put the brown-skinned native in as Sheriff of Honolulu County, "world's largest," extending from Oahu Island 1,300 mi. northwest to Midway Island. Vehemently anti-New Deal because of resentment over...
Composing the committee are: Lanrens D. Dawes '85, chairman, Harold E. Jahn '86, William Lawrence '37, Raymond J. Makowsky '86, Robert H. Rawson '86, and Allen B. Rider '85. The Patronesses will be Mrs. Walter E. Houghton, Mrs. Donald H. McLaughlin, Mrs. Perry Miller, and Mrs. Kenneth H. Murdoch...
...Holcombe went on to say that the present form of county administration actually is a remnant of the "horseback age," since the old English county was the territory which a rider could cover in a single...
...performing in Rochester, N. Y.'s Centennial celebration last week, trotted a lion around the ring each afternoon & evening. Rain fell one afternoon and the board platform, set up outdoors in a park, grew wet and slick. In the midst of its act the horse slipped, nearly threw its rider. When the act was over the lion, a four-year-old named "Baby," lunged at the horse's throat. Its trainer was too quick for it, drove it from the ring...
Fortescue is a name that falls readily into headline type. Each member of that socialite family has popped into the public prints in a different way. Major Granville Roland Fortescue, stepson of an uncle of Theodore Roosevelt, was a Rough Rider in Cuba, White House military aide to President Theodore Roosevelt, explorer, World War correspondent, A. E. F. field artillery officer wounded in action. Today he is a prolific fictionist. His wife, patrician Grace Bell Fortescue, is a cousin once removed of the late great Alexander Graham Bell. Their eldest daughter, Thalia Fortescue Massie, got world-wide attention two years...