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Vexed by motorists who speed on the private roads in the ground of Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, had sharp bumps built into the straightaways which no driver would be inclined to take at a fast clip more than once. The Manchester Guardian recalled a precedent of the plan, a bill introduced into the House of Lords by Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, requiring the local authorities of every English village to dig a shallow trench across the road at the town limits...
Died. Robert Winthrop Chanler, 57, portraitist, mural painter, onetime (1903) sheriff of Dutchess County, N. Y., wholehearted Rabelaisian (TIME, April 21); of heart failure, at Woodstock, N. Y. A great-grandson of John Jacob Astor related to three other venerable New York families (the Stuyvesants, Beekmans, Livingstons), he painted vivid, crowded screens, some of which were bought by the Metropolitan Museum in New York the Luxembourg in Paris. He decorated ballrooms, bedrooms, swimming pools for many a tycoon. Of his three brothers, William Astor was an African explorer, had his leg amputated because it bothered him; John Armstrong (Chaloner) made...
...there has been a midnight costume ball but this year it was called off to placate (and fill with triumph) the townsmen. As the night wears on, tippling, done at first covertly, becomes rowdy. In the cold light of morning the sun rises on dead ashes and a dwindling Woodstock. Art's autumnal migration back to the city is underway...
...sentimental monography Woodstock, An Essay (1923) Poet Richard Le Gallienne describes Brown as a second Balboa, misquotes Keats: "[Brown] stood looking down on Woodstock...
...Contributors are Shaemas O'Sheel, Henry Morton Robinson, Richard Le Gallienne, Poultney Bigelow, Harry Hibbard Kemp, J. P. ("Showgirl") McEvoy. Other denizens of the Woodstock colony: Alexander Archipenko, Eugene Speicher, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, James Thomson Shotwell, George Barrere, Lya DePutti, Blanche Yurka...