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...King Edward's 13-year-old nephew, Viscount Lascelles, elder son of the Princess Royal, Countess of Harewood, reached in his Eton schooldays last week that awful moment at which his Tutor assigned him to "fag" for a senior Etonian. This "fag-master" will expect his tea to be made and his room tidied by Viscount Lascelles who will find his posterior more or less vigorously "swished" with a cane or fives-bat if the toast is burned or the fag-master's cricket boots are improperly cleaned. The King's nephew will most certainly be thus...
...head of the Reich rail roads who was President of the second World Power Conference in Berlin six years ago; Japan's beaming Professor Masawo Kamo, who has a flair for oratory in broken English accompanied by dra matic gestures; Britain's horsey-looking Evelyn Hugh Boscawen, Viscount Falmouth, Governor of the Imperial College of Science & Technology and Alderman of London; Sir Harold Hartley, round-faced research director of the London Midland & Scottish Railway; Sir Archibald Page, smart technician who is head of the County of London Electric Supply Co.; Mrs. Gertrude Ruth Ziani de Ferranti, widow...
...himself against too much governmental restriction on utilities. Switzerland's Le Maitre declared that 98% of his country's homes were electrified, that many electric companies were owned partly by private investors and partly by local governments and the question of public ownership did not worry anyone. Viscount Falmouth, nicely neutral on the surface, explained 1 Britain's system of allowing utilities a 7% profit and of requiring five-sixths of all profits over 7% to be used for reducing rates...
...hour or two before the visitors arrived. President Gano Dunn of J. G. White Engineering Corp. pointed out to them that if the surface of the lake behind Boulder Dam were covered with such engines they would produce as much sun-power as the dam will yield waterpower. Viscount Falmouth looked at the solar engine, said to Mr. Dunn: "I don't think any solar engine will ever work in England. Do you think, sir, you could induce Dr. Abbot to perfect a fog motor...
...Into court before the King's Bench Division were haled last week some of Britain's greatest dailies, including Viscount Rothermere's Evening News and Baron Beaverbrook's Daily Express. Reason: the censors who snip out offending paragraphs before newsorgans can be offered for sale on British stands had failed to snip out accounts of the Constitution Hill incident in which a revolver hurtled from the hand of Jerome Bannigan and fell beneath the hoofs of King Edward's horse† (TIME, July...