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Howard Evans is the blunt headmaster of the Betteshanger School in Dover, England. Headmaster Evans believes in good bodies, declares that a man who develops a "monstrous girth" commits a social crime. Three weeks ago he debarked nine of his cheek-blown, beef-eating Betteshanger boys in Manhattan, had them show U. S. citizens proper methods of breathing and exercise. Last week, having seen as well as shown, Headmaster Evans prepared to ship his brood back to England, paused to observe that the average U. S. boy was superior in physique to the English boy. But he added a warning...
...first international underwater telegraph cable was laid in 1850 across 25 miles of English Channel from Dover to Cape Gris Nez, France. The first transatlantic cable was opened by Queen Victoria and President Buchanan in 1858. Since then, in all parts of the world, some 3,500 cables, totaling 300,000 miles in length, have been put in operation. They lie flat and tensionless on the floor of the ocean, avoid undersea peaks and canyons, go no deeper than about three miles, cost around $2,000 a mile. Inside each cable a copper conducting wire, 1 in. thick, is protected...
Meanwhile the Spanish Rightists were so pleased that Generalissimo Franco ordered released to their British owners the freight boats Caper, Bobie, Sanjold, Dover Abbey, Mirupanu, Yorkbrook and Seven Seas Spray, captured since last July running food and munitions to the Spanish Leftists. The Rightists last week retained the cargoes of these ships as "prizes of war"-thus boldly exercising a belligerent right-sent the empty tramps clanking home to England...
Died. Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, 84. British actor famed for his noble Shakespearean roles, which he played from 1874 until he retired from the professional stage 21 years ago; in St. Margaret's Bay, Dover, England. The greatest of his 130-odd parts was that of Hamlet, whom he thought ''not mad." merely "waxed desperate with imagination...