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Stimulated by model railroaders in Europe, of whom Britain's George VI is one, the hobby has developed in the U. S. mostly during the past ten years. U. S. devotees include a number of cinema people, notably Wallace Beery and Rod La Rocque, Vincent Astor is another. The finest model systems in the U. S. are credited to Minton Cronkhite of San Marino, Calif., who rides in the cabs of real locomotives whenever he can. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe R. R. frequently borrows Mr. Cronkhite's equipment for its displays at fairs. The national association...
...unwittingly served the cause of the British. For General Sidki's rule imperiled Britain's dominance over young King Ghazi whose kingdom lies on Britain's air route to the East, and Sidki's taking off made the Orient safer for the King Emperor George VI...
...George VI rolled out of Balmoral Castle to startle Aberdeenshire gillies with his new "shooting brake," a luxurious caterpillar-wheeled contraption with sliding win dows, special gun racks, facilities for serving lunch to ten guests. John Pierpont Morgan was under doctor's orders not to shoot, but opened his Gannochy Moor for guests. Active U. S. shooters included William Woodward, who leased one of the best moors at Clova, and Edmund P. Rogers, who paid $15,000 for the season rights to the moors of both Stobo Castle and Leithen Castle...
King Carol finished up his London week by lunching, without Mme Lupescu, in Buckingham Palace with George VI & Queen Elizabeth...
...pleased, British King George VI might sit down and write a letter to Prime Minister Chamberlain, urging him to go out and take steps to found a world organization for the Solution of Economic Problems. The trouble would be that in Britain "it isn't done," but in Belgium it is. Last week young, vigorous and thoughtful King Leopold III did it in a friendly letter which began "Dear Prime Minister" and was signed...