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...Britain's fields, like the others, were pungent with the smell of freshly plowed earth. In Kew Gardens photographers snapped pictures of rhododendrons in bloom five weeks before their time. Here & there, jokers were at work. Enthusiastic residents of Scarborough, in a frenzy of excitement over the notes of the first cuckoo, were crestfallen to discover that the trills of good cheer actually came from a toothless street cleaner named Hezekiah Johnson. "I wait until a crowd gathers," admitted Johnson. "Then I go into a nearby park and cuckoo. They all take it in. I used...
Arthur J. Boncot '49 of Leverett House and Germantown, Pa., and Peter B. Roll '48 of Lowell House and Scarborough, N. Y., will join 72-year old McMillan and his crew of 14 in the northern track to chart the seaward move of four massive glaciers which end in Baffin...
Heraldry and Hustings. Though he never worked, Sir George was always busy. Twice Tory M.P. for the fashionable seaside resort of Scarborough, his chief political handicap was that he could never remember his constituents' names. When not immersed in heraldry, he spent his time sitting on a tall wooden tower in the park, a gray umbrella over his head, a telescope at his eye, figuring out his latest ideas in landscape gardening. "I don't propose to do much," Sir George would say casually, "just a sheet of water and a line of statues." He also liked practical...
Psittacosis and Circus Clowns. Periodically, Osbert, Edith and Sacheverell visited their fabulously wealthy grandparents, the Earl and Countess of Londes-borough. When the Earl went bathing, a mile of red carpet was laid down from his Scarborough villa to the sea. When he inherited his estate, he promptly gave all his chief servants checkbooks "so that they could draw on his funds . . . without worrying him." An excessive fondness for parrots caused the Earl's death (in 1900, from psittacosis). His hawk-faced wife, who once caused Napoleon III to burn with a hard gemlike flame, ran Londes-borough Lodge...
Interesting to observe: The expressions on 250 happy little faces as the amphib list was announced . . . Most surprised listeners: Bobys, Scarborough, Olcezak . . . Most pleased Bell, Falk, Hughes...