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...guest of its famed tenant, Director-General Sir Henri Deterding of Royal Dutch Shell Oil (TIME, Aug. 20), Walter Clark Teagle, president of Standard Oil of New Jersey, last week sent a telegram. It was addressed to the London office of the Associated Press. In effect it read: "Tut-tut!" Actually it read...
Britons who dearly love a Lord tut-tutted in dismay last week...
...Tut was for the 27-year-old 21st Earl of Enroll, last of a line of Hereditary Lord High Constables of Scotland dating from 1315. He was roundly called a "blackguard" in London, last week, by Judge Sir Maurice Hill who assessed $15,000 damages against him as the corespondent in a successful divorce suit brought by Major Cyril S. R. Hill. "Mrs. Hill," said Judge Hill (no relation), "is a woman of the lowest character and a liar, perhaps due to the influence of the corespondent...
...Tut was for Mrs. Kate Evelyn Merrick, "The Queen of London Nightclub Keepers," who was sentenced to six months in jail for selling liquor after hours. Vexed were her sons-in-law, Baron de Clifford and the 13th Earl of Kinnoull...
...thus irate was Mr. Eastman. He had shipped virtually all his baggage by another train, and had remained at Luxor for an extra day, to be shown over the tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen by famed Egyptologist James Henry Breasted of the University of Chicago. With a contented smile, Mr. Eastman remarked that his unburned luggage contains a fine specimen of the nearly extinct white rhinoceros which he shot in the upper Nile region by special permission of the Egyptian Government...