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...teakwood and cream enamel Royal Train parked one night last week on a siding near Knowsley Hall, vast Lancashire estate of Edward George Villiers Stanley. 17th Earl of Derby.* There is no other peer with whom the King would rather dine and sit up late over a whiskey-soda. But scowling heavens loosed a cloudburst just as the Royal Train drew in. Terrific thunder claps, incessant lightning and sheets of lashing rain kept Their Majesties aboard the train all night. Next day amid brilliant sunshine Lord Derby was their guest as they chuffed off to open the most exciting feat...
...member of the famed Campbell clan, Mr. Moore is descended from the Earl of Argyll who befriended Mary, Queen of Scots. Proud of his Scottish ancestry, he has never worn his clan tartan of navy, black, red and green. His interest in the Cowal Games of the U. S. is sporting rather than historical. After schooling at St. Paul's, Mr. Moore joined Peary's Arctic Expedition in the summer of 1897. The next summer he hunted polar bear in Hudson Bay. After graduating from Yale in 1903, he spent a year touring and buying horses in Arabia...
...stuck in the throat of such a life-long pacifist, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald announced last week in his official residence at snug No. 10 Downing Street a new big-navy policy for the British Empire. The announcement was a shining victory for that doughty seadog Admiral Earl Beatty who has clamored for the last four years that "Britain must free herself from the strangle hold of the London Naval Treaty" with the U. S. and Japan...
...grey and graceful little "Disarmament Ambassador," Norman H. Davis. The chat at No. 10 between Scot MacDonald and Tennesseean Davis made clear that if the scheduled 1935 Naval Conference is held at all, it will be not a Disarmament but an Armament Conference. Somewhat pathetically the Prime Minister uttered Earl Beatty's arguments which are, in a nutshell, that Japan's new truculence and her seizure of Manchukuo make it imperative to strengthen the Royal Navy...
...Wyoming, there was only one shed there. Some of my friends went out to hold up the Denver stage coach. I was with them. All the others are now dead so there is no reason any longer why I shouldn't reveal it." Denver oldsters took the Yellow Earl's revelations calmly. They recalled that the holdup was a practical joke by the Earl and cowboy friends who heard that a party of Englishmen had taken the Denver coach and decided to scare them. They held up the coach right enough but. suddenly discovering some U. S. mail...