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...Waverley Market, school children performed a masque based upon the Waverley Novels. Miss Patricia Scott, great-great-great-granddaughter, unveiled a memorial in Galashiels, across the River Tweed from Abbotsford. Sir Robert Home, onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer, made a speech extolling Scott's "shining immortality." From Galashiels, whither went many a Scottish pilgrim, was broadcast a musical version of the Lay of the Last Minstrel. In Dryburgh Abbey there were ceremonies commemorating Scott's burial there. And in many a mountain glen the clans gathered, the pibrochs skirled...
From Stockholm, near where she occupies an island home (not the home of the late Ivar Kreuger, which it was rumored she had bought), and whither she went after demanding an increase of her $6,500 per week salary, came news that Greta Garbo had a cold. Also came news pictures snapped of her unawares in a Stock holm cinema theatre. They showed her dressed in the shapeless tweed suit which she had worn on her voyage from the U. S., long hair streaming stringily...
...Whither does this tremendous procession tend?" he asked last week in his presidential address. "Man was ethically unprepared for so great a bounty. In the slow evolution of morals he is still unfit for the tremendous responsibility it entails. The command of Nature has been put into his hands before he knows how to command himself. . . . So man finds this, that while he is enriched with a multitude of possessions and possibilities beyond his dreams, he is in great measure deprived of one inestimable blessing, the necessity of toil. . . . Where shall we look for a remedy? I cannot tell...
Born. To Col. & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh; a son; at the home of Mrs. Lindbergh's mother, Mrs. Dwight Morrow, in Englewood, N. J., where two years and two months ago her first baby, Charles Augustus Jr. was born and whither she retired after his death by kidnapping five months ago. Born. To Princess Ileana of Rumania, sister of King Carol; and Archduke Anton of Habsburg; a son; in Vienna. Name: Stephan. Married. Walter Joseph Smith, 22, youngest son of Alfred Emanuel Smith; and one Florence Elizabeth Watson, 22, of Schenectady, N. Y.; in Schenectady. Married. Charles Sumner Fess...
Died. James Francis Burke, 64, general counsel of the Republican National Committee, onetime (1905-15) U. S. Representative from the 31st Pennsylvania District (Pittsburgh), close friend and adviser of President Hoover; of coronary thrombosis following dilation of the heart; in Garfield Hospital, Washington, whither he was sent by Dr. Joel Thompson Boone after his illness during a White House conference had become apparent to President Hoover. Counsel Burke was elected secretary of the Republican National Committee in 1892 at 25, youngest man ever to hold the post...