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...first time since he nearly died of pneumonia two years ago, George V last week opened Parliament. Bareheaded the venerable monarch drove with Queen Mary from Buckingham Palace to the House of Lords, arrived snuffling. Repeatedly during the majestic procedure His Majesty cleared his throat as though it tickled. Once he broke a sentence in the middle to cough...
...very young lady lay on her back in Buckingham Palace last week and made faces at the Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury. Disregarding the grimaces, His Grace the Archbishop dipped his fingers in a lily-shaped solid gold font filled with water from the River Jordan and piped in an ecclesiastical treble...
...Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news: Margaret Rose was chosen as the name for the month-old daughter of the Duke & Duchess of York (TIME, Sept. i). She will be christened at Buckingham Palace in October. Robert Tyre Jones Jr., practicing near Philadelphia for the U. S. Amateur golf championship at Merion Cricket Club (TIME, Sept. 22), denied he had suffered an attack of appendicitis. Said he: "I just had a stomach ache." He moved the scene of his practicing from the Merion club to parts unknown, to escape mobs of admiring gawkers. Later...
...Dawson was a comparatively poor but comparatively elegant medical student in London. Among his acquaintances was a really poor bookkeeper in London, James Ramsay MacDonald. Recently the Rt. Hon. James Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of Great Britain, told a story about both of them: "The first time I visited Buckingham Palace as a guest of the King, a distinguished looking man, whom I had been informed was Lord Dawson, came and shook my hand in a most familiar fashion, saying, 'Have you forgotten me?' Then he reminded me of a night when we had a frugal supper together...
...Webb*, 81, one of the only two architects ever elected president of the British Royal Academy; after long illness, in London. He designed many of London's greatest public buildings: the Admiralty Arch at the east end of the Mall, the Royal College of Science, the new front of Buckingham Palace...