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...Yarborough, Baron Worsley (owner of many a Rembrandt and Reynolds); James Edward Hubert Gascoyne Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (conscientious high churchman). The King-Emperor George V. resumed a gracious custom inaugurated by his graceless predecessor George III. The custom consists in granting to some faithful servant of the Crown a life lease on White Lodge, the royal estate at Richmond Park. The faithful and sometimes quixotic public servant rewarded was Viscount Lee of Fareham, who had given his own estate, Chequers, to be used as a summer residence for British premiers...
...Tokyo, Prince Regent Hirohito, who has ruled in his father's stead since 1921, presided over the chrysanthemum fete with his wife, the Crown Princess Nagako. He and his three brothers are strapping sportsmen, know not infirmities...
Married. Leopold of Saxe-Co-burp und Gotha and of Flanders, Crown Prince of the Belgians, Duke of Brabant; to Astrid of Ponte Corvo, daughter of Prince Carl of Sweden, niece of the kings of Norway, Sweden and Denmark; in Stockholm (TIME, Nov. 15) and Brussels...
...University won the individual crown last year when Captain W. L. Tibbetts '26 sprinted ahead of J. C. Loucks of Syracuse in the most thrilling six mile race ever witnessed on the New York course. The winning time was 30 minutes and 34 seconds...
...first Maximilian refused, but four years later under pressure from Napoleon III and after General Forey had captured the City of Mexico, he decided to accept the crown, contrary, however, to his brother's advice...