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...casual gesture. One clan, of course, is the famed Du Pont family whose industries make everything from dynamite to dainty ladies' hand-mirrors. To the Senate they have sent T. Coleman du Pont, Republican. The other tribe bears the name of Bayard. Many centuries ago, its forefathers sprang from the loins of Chevalier de Bayard, that knight sans peur et sans reproche. In the U.S. the Bayards have been in the Senate with surprising regularity since the days of Thomas Jefferson. Now there sits as the colleague of Senator du Pont, one Thomas F. Bayard,* Democrat...
...sitting with my back to the window between the British Ambassador (Sir John Tilley) and the Belgian Ambassador (M. Albert de Bassompierre). Sir John's son, Roger Tilley, who was sitting across the table, saw the man draw a knife and sprang toward the window as the man hurled it in my general direction. The knife entered Roger Tilley's vest just over his heart and would probably have killed him had not his gold cigaret case deflected it. Though confusion ensued I insisted that the luncheon go on as though nothing had happened. The Japanese police...
...Cortes were dissolved by a Royal Decree after General de Rivera sprang the Coup which placed him in control of Spain (TIME, Sept...
...TIME, March 1) a no more and no less notorious adventurer than Dictator Pangalos, sprang a bloodless coup d' etat at Athens, telegraphed an order for the President's arrest to Spetsae. Resourceful, President Pangalos hurried aboard the destroyer Pergamos, sought to escape to a foreign port. Unlucky, he found the Pergamos short of coal...
...feeling that the bout might actually take place, began to cast an eye on the participants. Challenger James J. ("Gene") Tunney, 27, is generally referred to in print as "the Marine." Press agents have adroitly pointed out that while Dempsey lolled the War away in a Brooklyn shipyard, Tunney sprang to arms, arrived early in France, stayed late. He gave lessons, exhibition bouts, in various training camps, but was demobilized underweight, with brittle hands. His manager sent him to the Maine woods where he hauled and hewed for a winter and acquired a new jauntiness which he employed effectively against...