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...Gustaf VI of Sweden at their Sofiero summer palace. King Gustaf apologized for the main dish, explaining that even a royal fisherman must dine on what he catches. Said he: "It should have been tunny fish, which we were out to get this morning, but we caught 15 codfish instead...
...Bandleader Guy Lombardo and his Tempo VI, the National Sweepstakes (speedboat) championship ten-mile race; at Red Bank...
...Queen, it seems, is 18th in descent from one Mary Whalesborough, sister of Shakespeare's great-great-great-grandmother; the Queen is also 17th in descent from one John Belknap, brother of Shakespeare's great-great-great-great-grandmother. Meanwhile at Sandringham, the Queen joined King George VI in a garden party for members of the National Federation of the Blind. The King, who has canceled all public engagements since his recent illness, leaned on a shepherd's staff and posed with his blind guests to give photographers a picture of smiling convalescence...
...placement office attaches great interest to its graphs showing the relation of rank list groupings to the men planning graduate study. The greatest number of students who intend to go to the advanced schools is in Group III, though 55 percent of Group VI is also considering graduate work. All the students in Group I plan to study after graduation...
...England for the first state visit by a Danish sovereign since 1914. After a Buckingham Palace banquet and a Guildhall luncheon, King Frederik was host at a Danish embassy party where he calmly broke tradition by smoking during dinner, was calmly imitated by his guest of honor, King George VI. Frederik, proud of his un-kingly tattooed dragons and birds, picked up during his navy days, also had time to phone his "compliments" to an old friend, British Physical Training Instructor George Walsh who had added 6½ inches to the royal chest. Crowed Walsh: King Frederik is "the strongest...