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...Empire Salesman, Edward VIII bore in manly silence the fact that eight out of nine British planes which took off on the recent race to South Africa failed to arrive (TIME, Oct. 12). At the first opportunity, Salesman Edward's private secretary Major Hon. Alexander Hardinge released for publication this boost: "The King will be glad if the Secretary of State will convey to Squadron-Leader Swain his Majesty's congratulations on his fine achievement in breaking the altitude record with all-British equipment." Part of Hero Swain's equipment was a new type of air-tight...
Since England's first postage stamp (1840) was also the world's first, it needed no national identification, bore none. Proud that their Monarch's face is known to earth's end, Britons continue their tradition...
...mild in the local pub last week, Norfolk yokels guffawed with native pride as they read in London's Sunday Referee all about their 103-year-old pal George Skeet, "Britain's most wonderful father." A lad of 25 in 1858, George took a wife, who bore him two sons now aged 60 and 69. "The marriage," reported the Referee, "pursued the unruffled happiness of a rural England idyll till George was eighty-eight." Then his wife died. George, however, "felt that he had years ahead of him." At 90 he took a second fling at matrimony...
Help Wanted. On his way to the convention, A. B. A. President Robert Vedder Fleming of Washington's Riggs Bank had stopped off in Spokane, Wash, long enough to get himself named "Chief Black Hawk" by the Flathead Indians. This warlike title he bore gracefully. Mr. Fleming, amiable and solid as he is jolly, reminded the bankers that during the year Congress and the Administration had given A. B. A. "courteous and attentive consideration." Banks had been excluded from the provisions of the law taxing undistributed earnings. "Splendid cooperation" had been received from the Government in a survey aimed...
...addition to this surprise package of sacred literature, the profane reading of members was supplied with a heavy, repetitious, 499-page regional novel revolving around the dwellers of the Mississippi Delta country south of New Orleans. With a central character named Sister Kalavich, a proud, self-possessed girl who bore an illegitimate son, defied her neighbors, lived alone and achieved a life of harmony with nature, Green Margins contains almost all the essentials of a good novel except a narrative to hold it together or a clearly-defined purpose that would give its episodes significance. Pursued by hearty, headstrong Mitch...