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...himself, so seriously that he was compelled to retire, by colliding with his partner during a doubles match. The injury was still noticeable, in the form of a slight limp, when Richard Dudley Sears went to Forest Hills. N. Y. last week to attend a Golden Jubilee Ceremony, the 50th U. S. Lawn Tennis Championship...
...eminent American. Next year's convention will be held in Washington. D.C. to celebrate K. of C.'s 50th anniversary. How to give color to such a ceremony? Always a good way is to unveil something. K. of C. has already aided in putting up a memorial to Christopher Columbus in Washington (as well as getting his birthday observed). On its Golden Anniversary, announced Supreme Knight Carmody last week, K. of C. will honor, because of his "preeminence as a great American," the late great James Cardinal Gibbons. In the Manhattan Studio of Sculptor Leo Lentelli now stands...
...excited British savants. It was a momentous occasion, they felt: they were to unseal the first of a great collection of historical gramophone cylinders, recorded years ago for the benefit of posterity. They were to hear first the voice of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate of England, on the 50th anniversary of its recording, in a reading of his own works...
...Clans gathered at Glamis last week. Campbells, Rosses, Ferguses, MacDonalds, MacNeills and the rest all sent delegations to attend the 50th wedding anniversary of His Lordship Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kingshorne. For over 250 of its 800 years, Glamis Castle has been the property of the Bowes-Lyon family. Here by tradition Macbeth did murder Duncan (and sleep). Here Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon married King George's son, the Duke of York (TIME, May 5, 1923). Here their second child was born, the Princess Margaret Rose of York (TIME, Sept. 1, 1930). The Duke...
...murals. Designed for the new Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, these paintings were to be seen in the Sert studio during July. Last week workmen were gluing the 20 canvases to the walls of the Waldorf-Astoria's swankiest dining room, the Sert Room which looks out on 50th Street and Park Avenue...