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...June 9?Trial races of Sir Thomas Lipton's America's Cup challenger; Shamrock V v. King George's new Britannia; at Ryde. Cowes and Southampton, England...
Secretary Stimson is just two years older than Mahatma Gandhi, 61, and far more robust. Yet if Mr. Stimson had taken off all except a loin cloth when he landed at Southampton (TIME, Jan. 20, et seq.) and had walked barefoot the 80 miles to London, seeking thus to impress the World with his holy resolve to make the Naval Conference a success, Englishmen would have thought...
There was, of course, nothing literally new, even in the year 1079, about the stretch of timberland, oak, ash and thorn, patched with open spaces of bog and heath, between the Solent, Southampton Water and the Avon. William the Conquerer only called it "New Forest" because it was connected with a new idea of his. Seeing how the farms of Hampshire, unrolling like green quilts, were slowly pushing away the woods, he set New Forest aside as a place for trees to grow and noblemen to hunt. For a long time any rogue caught killing the king's deer...
...blinding rainstorm, in a gale strong enough to rip a ton of masonry from the grey and gothic west front of famed York Minster, Edward of Wales last week boarded the S. S. Kenilworth Castle at Southampton Docks, bound for Africa to resume the big game hunt which was interrupted 13 months ago by the critical illness of George V. Announced objective: the shooting of a two-horned rhinoceros, two or three male lions (H. R. H.'s previous bag contained only lionesses...
...presence of Miss Jane Gaynor and several effective DeSylva-Brown-Henderson tunnes is Among the current Broadway successes introduces as many withouit recourse to backstage or college What pases for its plot includes episoedes at a block party in New York's East Side and a charity show at Southampton and the principals and choruses can indulge themselves in song and dance for all they are worth at both affairs...