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Until recently, U. S. golfers made a habit of winning British championships as well as their own. This season, the situation has been reversed. Scot Jack McLean was a finalist in the U. S. Amateur at Garden City last month. Last week, at Summit, N. J., England's Pamela Barton was a finalist for the U. S. Women's Championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pam | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...residents has been the sight of Harvard's white-haired little President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell careening over the roads at the wheel of his high-sided old black sedan. In 1932 he was haled into court for driving on the wrong side of the road, got off scot-free. Recently frosty old Dr. Lowell, nearing 80, applied for a renewal of his driver's license, was obliged to take an examination under a new Massachusetts ruling requiring operators of 65 or more to pass a rigid test. Last week at Hyannis, Examiner Louis Crocker, onetime Harvard student...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 14, 1936 | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...lying!" shouted George Buchanan, one of the four Independent Labor Party members in the House. When asked by the Speaker to withdraw, Scot Buchanan cried, "I can't withdraw my remark, even for you, because it's true ! The Home Secretary is not telling the truth. He is lying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Aug. 3, 1936 | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

...this the Speaker asked a vote to suspend George Buchanan, but before division could take place Scot Campbell Stephen, M. P.. also of the Independent Labor Party, got up to say: "His Majesty's Government's supporters are cowardly robbers and murderers of the working class. The Minister of Labor, Mr. Ernest Brown, is a dirty, contemptible little rat who ought to be hounded from public life. The Home Secretary is a lying scoundrel, and I will not sit down and listen to him. The Minister of Health, Sir Kingsley Wood, is also a contemptible little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Aug. 3, 1936 | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

...McGovern, who by this time had called King Edward a ''despicable individual" who was stingy with his mother Queen Mary. Tempers passed the boiling mark and His Majesty's Loyal Opposition started shouting, "Baby Starvers!" and "Dirty Rats!" at His Majesty's Government as Scot McGovern walked out past Sir John Simon snarling at the impassive Home Secretary, "Everybody knows you're a liar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Aug. 3, 1936 | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

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