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...abridgment of the first six volumes of his monumental A Study of History a bestseller, and Toynbee's name tinkled among the Martini glasses of Brooklyn as well as of Bloomsbury. Now, Historian Toynbee gives his public a peek at what is yet to come in Volumes VII through X of his magnum opus, due for publication next year. The World and the West, a collection of six lectures delivered last year on the BBC, is always readable, if often disconcertingly brief in its arguments...
Banished Belles. Austerely handsome, upright and proper to a degree unusual in Edwardian England, the new Duchess of York stood in severe contrast to her radiant mother-in-law, Queen Alexandra, a woman whom Britons loved as much for King Edward VII's well-known unreliability as for her own beauty. Soon after the accession of husband George, in 1910, Queen Mary let it be known that "I will not have anyone around me about whom there is a breath of scandal"-a statement which automatically banished dozens of Edwardian belles from the royal court...
...sometime British-baiting publisher of the Chicago Tribune, and his wife arrived in London for a visit. The colonel did not plan to attend the coronation, but, he added, "... I have some lively memories of British royal families. I recall that once the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, patted me on the head when I was a little boy visiting Germany. The Prince was with the Kaiser . . . The Prince said to me, 'There's a nice little British boy,' because he noticed I was wearing a sailor's hat bearing the initials H.M.S...
...traditionally straight, string-beanish outline is growing straighter. Whether the impulse originated along New York's Madison Avnue, London's Saville Row, or Cambridge's Mount Auburn Street, is of little consequence. The important thing is that male styles are gradually turning back to Edward VII for a model...
Jeffries was far from eager; he had quit training, was long past his peak and weighed 285 Ibs. But he was hounded endlessly, both by Promoter Tex Rickard and the public. He went to Europe to relax and was startled one day when Britain's King Edward VII stepped out of a shop in Carlsbad and accosted him. The King, who had been picking out silver foxes for a lady friend, wanted to know when he would beat Johnson. Jeffries came home, and on Oct. 29, 1909 signed to fight Li'l Arthur 45 rounds...