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...royal prince-H. R. H. the Duke of Gloucester-was subordinated last week to the following item which London's august Times placed prominently at the head of its daily column "News In Brief": The cuckoo was heard on Monday morning in the coppices at Coombe Hill, Surrey. Two items down appeared an intimation that the Duke of Gloucester, third son of His Majesty George V, had consented to become the Patron of a charitable institute. Provokingly mysterious and stimulating to alert imaginations was a third gem of news, the eighth in the column: Two men dressed in plus...
Every summer the little town of Bisley, Surrey, has its day in the news when hawk-eyed, steady-handed sharpshooters assemble from all over the world to shoot for the King's prize. The famed ranges of the National Rifle Association are at Bisley, and Bisley is to shooting what St. Andrews is to golf...
...cold for paddling and decided to put on a play by way of diversion. The club's personnel is wholly masculine, so something special had to be written for the occasion. The members turned to R. C. Sherriff, one of their number, who had had "experience" in the Surrey Amateur Dramatic Society...
...these, a subaltern, loved Lois- genuinely; but not pugnaciously enough to defy her aunt's disapproval: he had neither riches nor pride of family, his relatives lived vaguely in Surrey, and that, thought Aunt Myra, would never do. Lois, for her part, loved, but did not bestir herself to contradict her aunt. When a few days later the subaltern, on patrol, was shot from ambush, Aunt Myra thought it sad, and continued her teas. Lois pondered, to no avail, and went abroad to get on with her French. But that was their last bland September; by the next, revolutionary...
Married. The Countess of Northesk, onetime Jessica Brown of the Ziegfeld Follies, who recently divorced David, 11th Earl of Northesk; and Vivian Cornelius of the British diplomatic corps, of Windlesham, Surrey; in London. Said the clergyman: "Vivian . . . you're marrying an exquisite woman. . . . I love you both. . . . Jessica . . . you've married Vivian, a great man, a true Sahib...