Word: simla
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...agent at White Horse, to the flight commander at Aden, to the pilot boat on the Hooghly, to the superintendent at Kimberley, to the colonel's lady at Simla, to thousands of others a treat was on its way last week. The big weekly edition of the august London Times was carrying, in addition to its eight pages of pictures, eight pages in rotogravure and eight more pages in color. It was the first time that any English newspaper had incorporated either gravure or color as a regular feature...
...onetime Fisticuffer James J. ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett (who won the world's heavyweight championship from John L. Sullivan 39 years ago this week), of an intestinal ailment, in Manhattan; Viceroy Lord Willingdon of India, of dysentery, at Simla; bankrupt Theatrical Producer Arthur Hammerstein, of a ruptured bladder, in Manhattan; Cinemactress Constance Bennett, with adhesions after her appendectomy of last year, in Manhattan; famed Scientist Sir David Bruce (discoverer of the cause of Malta fever, namesake of the bacteria group "Brucella"), in London; Queen Marie of Rumania, of a female complaint due to her age (55), at Bucharest...
...agree to the establishment of an impartial tribunal to investigate alleged breaches of the Delhi pact (TIME, March 2), as Gandhi had first demanded, but he did say that he would have some of the more startling charges looked into. The Mahatma retired to his mountain retreat near Simla, took a ceremonial bath, repeated a litany 1,008 times with some disciples, began his wild dash for London...
...story of the affair printed in his newspaper. Allan Henry, younger son of President Herbert Clark Hoover, who completed in June his course at Harvard's business school, sailed for a junket in Hawaii. The following lay ill: Countess Willingdon, Vicereine of India, of dengue ("breakbone") fever, at Simla; Clifford C. ("Cactus") Cravath, city judge of Leguna Beach, Calif, who led the Na tional League in homeruns in 1913-15 and 1917-19, after a motor accident; the Duke of Gloucester, third son of George V of England, after an appendectomy, in London...
Mahatma Gandhi, still trying to make up his mind at Simla whether or not to attend a round table conference at London, retired from the world last week for his customary Day of Silence. Emerging 24 hours later, he was respectfully begged by British reporters to outline what he considered his Ten Commandments for an ideal life. St. Gandhi blinked modestly behind his glittering spectacles...