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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Among the few ruling princes officially to attend the Coronations of Georges V & VI was the kinky-haired Sultan of Zanzibar, Seyyid Sir Khalifa bin Harub. All British bandmasters in London were given special editions of the Zanzibar national anthem last week, found that it sounded remarkably like Home Sweet Home. It has no words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Musk, Civet & Ambergris | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

With Cecil Rhodes looking on approvingly from a portrait on the wall, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, cool, cultivated chairman of De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., reported on the state of the world's diamond-mining industry one day last week in the company's famed board room in Kimberley, South Africa. Occasion was the 49th annual meeting of the company which, for all practical purposes, is the world's diamond industry. Founded by the young imperialist who established the Rhodes Scholarship Trust, originally chartered with powers not only to engage in commercial exploitation but also to raise armies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Diamonds and Joy | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

Wednesday Evening, May 12 *Coronation MarchEdward German *"The Royal Fireworks," Suite Handel *Entr' acte from "Rosamunde" Schulbert *Finale, Symphony in C minor, No. 1 Brahms *French Miltary March Saint-Saens *"The Mikado," Selection Sir Arthur Sullivan Two Canadian Marches "The Land of the Maple" "Laurentian March" Laurendeau *"Sally in our Alley" (Transcribed for String Orchestra by Frank Bridgo *"Country Gardens" Grainger *"Pomp and Circumstance," March Sir Edward Elgar God Save the King *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE POPS | 5/12/1937 | See Source »

Married. Gladys Cooper, 45, British actress; and Actor Philip Merivale, 50, with whom she is playing in Close Quarters; in Chicago, four days after a final divorce was granted in London to her second husband, Publisher Sir Neville Pearson (Country Life), who named Merivale as corespondent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 10, 1937 | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

Winner of first place in the English Sophmore Tutorial Prize contest, announced yesterday was Joseph W. Chapman '39 who was awarded $50 worth of books for his tutorial essay entitled "Sir Thomas More...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chapman Wins $50 Prize In '39 Tutorial Essay Contest | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

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