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...Henry Fowler, chief mechanical engineer of the London Midland & Scottish Railway Co., was motoring to Derby to work. At an intersection a police officer stopped the car momentarily, then beckoned it on. Sir Henry and the officer nodded cordially. It was his son George, a Cambridge undergraduate, who is working as a constable during his vacation. Explained his father: "Start in Scotland Yard? Certainly not! He is starting at the bottom as an ordinary uniformed policeman...
Siam's small, brown King Prajadhipok marched behind 125 large, hairy Scottish bagpipers in Banff, Alberta, one day last week. The pipers shrilled and wheezed ''The Campbells Are Coming," but behind the King came Rear Admiral Thavara Chayant, royal physician, Siamese Minister to the U. S. Prince Amoradat Kridakara and two inspectors of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. In a motor car came Queen Rambai and the royal suite. They arrived at a large field. King Prajadhipok (incognito as Prince Sukhodaya) ran St. Andrew's flag up a tall flagpole and opened formally the fifth annual...
...paid at current rates, but successive reductions brought the rate to 2¾% in 1888, 2½% in 1902. There is also a 4%, issue of Consols, sold in 1927. These bonds have no maturity date. A favorite section is "Home Rails," including, of course, Great Western, London, Midland & Scottish, Southern, and Metropolitan ("Mets"). Foreign rails include Antofagasta-Bolivia Railroad ("Fags"), Canadian Pacific, and Costa Rican. The bank division lists the British banks, also Chartered Bank of India, Bank of Hongkong, National Bank of Egypt and others. Imperial Chemical heads the chemical group while the textiles include Celanese, Coats...
...Author. Literary England is excited about Dr. Archibald Joseph Cronin. A Scottish medico of 34, his writing apprenticeship was served in concocting such unlikely sellers as A History of Aneurism, Dust-Inhalation by Haematite Miners, First Aid in Coal Mines. He took a vacation last summer, wrote Hatter's Castle in some three strenuous months. Gollancz, first English publisher to see the MS, accepted it with cheers. So did the Book Society of London. Though Dr. Cronin served in the surgical corps during the War, has traveled widely, has been down 500 coal mines in the course of research...
...Author- Dorothy Rothschild Parker, 37, divorced wife of one Edwin Pond Parker II, is half Jewish, half Scottish. She has worked on Vogue, Vanity Fair, is now the New Yorker's "Constant Reader." During the Sacco-Vanzetti disturbances she was arrested in Boston for "loitering and sauntering," paid a $5 fine...