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Correspondent Larry Rue spent an entire week covering the Albania-Jugoslav frontier from Greece to the Adriatic for the Chicago Tribune. His motor car, he cabled, was the first through the mile- high, snow-covered uplands since December. A broken connecting rod meant getting another car, and friendly peasants shoveled much snow and pushed often and mightily. "I visited every garrison, outpost and supply depot," cabled thoroughgoing Correspondent Rue, concluding that in his opinion the Jugoslavs were emphatically not mobilized last week...
...papers you are wrong. I have seen him several times, I have shaken hands with him once, and I have heard of a "smart" and kind thing he once did. An old lady could not get the window up in a street car, but John Coolidge borrowed an iron rod from the conductor and pried the window open. I have heard this for a fact...
...Edward of Wales stood decorous in his place at the right of the throne. A moment earlier he had tripped over his own sword and almost sprawled. The picture seemed sufficiently magnificent, yet His Majesty sat waiting. The delay lengthened, grew in a few seconds to seem interminable. . . . Black Rod. That which delayed George V in opening Parliament was the absence of the plebeian members of the House of Commons. In another part of the Palace of Westminster they were dallying overlong with a ceremony of quaint historic significance. They were rebuffing the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod. . . . Lieutenant...
Since this mummery had been imperfectly timed last week, the Commons came scrambling after the Black Rod into the House of Lords with unseemly haste. Soon the Lord President of the Council, the Earl of Balfour, knelt and presented to His Majesty a scroll containing "The King's Speech." In clear, vibrant tones, distinctly audible to everyone, George V read what purported to be his own speech...
...this time the scrivener was so famished that the stuffed brown bears on the cliff overlooking the lake looked appetizing and as the Golden Rod Bassaqua was fondling a pet "huskey" instead of cooky savory moose chops he excused himself and headed for the nearest "hot dog" caravansary...