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Ahead of grouse and postage stamps, the royal yacht Britannia is His Majesty's passion. This year, during the Cowes Regatta, English newspapers concealed, but Scottish ones reported, the annoyance of the Cowes populace that George V did not leave his yacht during the whole of "Cowes Week," and the fury of members of the Royal Yacht Club at the King's absenting himself from their annual dinner. Not even Her Majesty could prevail upon Yachtsman George, who was having a gorgeous sea time. To soothe the proletariat Queen Mary went shopping alone several times in Cowes, bought all sorts...
...performed a masque based upon the Waverley Novels. Miss Patricia Scott, great-great-great-granddaughter, unveiled a memorial in Galashiels, across the River Tweed from Abbotsford. Sir Robert Home, onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer, made a speech extolling Scott's "shining immortality." From Galashiels, whither went many a Scottish pilgrim, was broadcast a musical version of the Lay of the Last Minstrel. In Dryburgh Abbey there were ceremonies commemorating Scott's burial there. And in many a mountain glen the clans gathered, the pibrochs skirled...
...Cleveland's Hebrew Cultural Gardens last week, with Scottish bagpipers droning and Scott authorities lecturing, a bronze bas-relief of Rebecca Gratz was unveiled at the Gardens' entrance across the street from the Shakespeare Garden...
...Fallodon, near the Scottish border, Lord Grey has established two duck sanctuaries, in & about two small ponds surrounded by high fox-proof fences. There he feeds his ducks twice a day, many of them eating from his hand. All are wild ducks, free to come & go as they please, but at Fallodon they have become tame. There are some 200 ducks of 20-odd species. Says Frank Michler Chapman, curator of birds at the American Museum of Natural History, in an introduction to Lord Grey's article...
...Union. The holder of a $ 1,000 defaulted South American bond would have a hard time getting satisfaction from the defaulting nation. One man speaking for holders of a billion dollars' worth of defaulted bonds might get somewhere. Cognizant of this, last week between 250 and 300 English and Scottish investment trusts, the investments of which are far flung, formed an association to deal with defaulters at home and abroad. Continental and U. S. trusts with mutual problems are expected to cooperate...