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...Wales the Prince of Wales has stanch admirers, severe critics. Recently members of a prominent Cardiff club learned that H. R. H. had flown over to Le Touquet for a round of golf on Sunday. Last week they drafted and sent this telegram: WE RESPECTFULLY SUGGEST THAT YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS COULD SET A HIGHER EXAMPLE TO YOUR FUTURE LOYAL SUBJECTS BY REFRAINING FROM ENCOURAGING THE DESECRATION OF THE SABBATH...
...half. It might have been luck that Mohawk Pal found the birds first, or just that he was keener that day. But no backer of pointers would make excuses for Mary Blue: the event was not arguable. Pal won with five finds. White, black, tan and ticked, stanch and stylish, fast and independent, he is owned by E, M. Tutwiler of Birmingham, Ala. and was handled by Forrest Dean of Wheeler, Ala. Besides permanent possession of the Merriman cup, his win brought...
Sirs: Recent issue (TIME, Sept. 16), Religious Department, stated Voliva stanch Fundamentalist believing earth flat. Get posted. Fundamentalists do not believe this...
...General Overseer Voliva, last week was a bad week for an invasion. Stanch fundamentalist, he believes the world "is square and flat like a sheet of paper," offers $1,000 to anyone who can disprove him. When the Graf Zeppelin started he predicted dire calamity awaited it. Informed that it had docked safely in Friedrichshafen, he sulked and refused to issue a statement. Smart Sister Locy was quick to take advantage of this. As a prime Voliva-baiting tactic she nightly challenged him to debate the earth's shape...
...fleetest fishing schooners were racing inshore to settle old rivalries. Gloucester folk, proud of their schooners, enthusiastic about this race of the last genuine U. S. sailing ships, had donated $20,000 to recondition canvas and repay owners for lost fish. Thousands lined the shore to watch the stanch, full-rigged craft course twice around an 18-mile triangle into the harbor. In the first two races, gentle inshore winds were insufficient to drive the schooners to the finish within the time limit. In the third, little Portuguese-American Progress gradually overcame Capt. Ben Pine's big Arthur...