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...Buckingham Palace. H. R. H. slipped a ring of Welsh gold over Lady Alice's finger, repeating after the Archbishop of Canterbury: "With this ring I thee wed. With my body I thee worship. And with all my worldly goods I thee endow!" At the tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey that evening, a late-straying canon found a bouquet with a royal card: "From the Duchess of Gloucester." In their own special train the new Duchess and the Duke left London to honeymoon at Boughton House, Northamptonshire, a favorite country seat of the bride...
...Standing in Arlington National Cemetery over the grave of the Unknown Soldier on Armistice Day, 1921, Warren G. Harding declared: "There must, there shall be a commanding voice of conscious civilization against armed warfare. . . . Knowing that the world is noting this expression of the Republic's mindfulness, it is fitting to say that [the Unknown Soldier's] sacrifice and that of the millions dead shall not be in vain...
Cleated shoes were first worn in 1881. No pads and head guards were worn, and both teams remained on the field during intermissions. The game was rough, injuries few, and penalties unknown...
Harvard's Missing Man is Paul J. Sachs '00, associate director of Fogg and professor of Fine Arts, who is still summer vacationing. Both his present whereabouts and the date of his return are unknown to the Fine Arts Department. His French painting course, Fine Arts 5n, enjoyed a reading period until recently, when a colleague took charge...
...model young woman is modest Henrietta Leaver of McKeesport, Pa. who until three months ago worked in a 5? & 10? store. One to whom Miss Leaver was not entirely unknown was Manager George Tyson of Pittsburgh's Alvin Theatre who recalled that two years ago she was runner-up for the title of "Miss McKeesport," that she tried again this year and won the title of "Miss Pittsburgh" in a beauty contest of his organizing. Two months ago when "Miss Pittsburgh" was glorified at Atlantic City as "Miss America of 1935," he became her manager. And last week "Miss...