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Against a charge that he had stolen another man's ideas, made a book of them and sold it, the brilliant, hard-drinking Earl of Birkenhead defended himself last week with all the power and crushing erudition of a former Lord High Chancellor, of Britain...
...charge had been made with polite, scathing contempt by no less a personage than J. B. S. Haldane, famed Cambridge biochemist (TIME, March 29, 1926). In reviewing the Earl's latest best seller, The World in 2030, Mr. Haldane observed that a sort of mental telepathy must exist between his common head and the belted Earl's, since he recognized in no less than 44 passages ideas similar to the ones he had expressed in his essay of scientific prophecy Daedalus...
Having thus complimented William Woodward, owner of Gallant Fox, who sat beside him in the pagoda, Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby, took little further interest in the actual running. Although his conduct might have seemed odd in view of the fact that, urged by his friend Joseph E. Widener, he had come from England on the Aquitania expressly to be present during these 2 minutes and 7 seconds, a large fraction of which had still to elapse, he was quite in his senses. Himself a horseman, smart in the hunting field when he was younger, a breeder...
Heir Expected; by Mrs. Earl Edward Taylor Smith (Consuelo Vanderbilt), daughter of William Kissam Vanderbilt, member of the sole U. S. family to have its expectancies almost invariably made known...
...Musical ?EARL CARROLL'S SKETCH BOOK (TIME, July 15), FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN (TIME, Dec. 9), INTERNATIONAL REVUE (now with Frances Williams), SIMPLE SIMON (TIME, March 3), SONS o' Guxs (TIME, Dec. 9), STRIKE UP THE BAND (TIME...