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Globule," by the premier parodist of England, Editor Squire of the London Mercury, when "sturdy tenantry" assembled at Norman grey Arundel Castle to celebrate the 21st birthday of the Premier Duke and Earl of England, shy, none-too-bright Bernard Marmaduke FitzAlan- Howard, Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Arundel, Baron Maltravers, Earl of Surrey, Baron FitzAlan, Clun and Oswaldestre, Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England (TIME, June 10). The diffident Duke, who in addition to his titles is the chief Roman Catholic peer in Great Britain, has been schooled entirely by private nurses and tutors...
From time to time throughout the celebration week, four young ladies billed as the Gloria Trumpeters appeared dressed in flowing togas and blew sweetly upon burnished horns. Certain pastors joined in a dramatic exhibition entitled "Who Killed Earl Wright?" in which the deplorable results of bootlegging and alcoholism were made manifest. The theatrical climax of the week occurred when 1,200 Columbus churchmembers acted for four nights in a luxurious pageant called "The Church Triumphant," conceived by Helen L. Willcox of Pasadena. Its prelude, six episodes and finale showed scenes of various religious significance, including the dedication of Constantinople...
...Crosson and Harold Gillam, flying the Arctic beach in the Amguyema River district, had come back with scraps of twisted metal, a side of bacon and a case of eggs from the wreckage of the plane in which, two and one-half months prior, flyers Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland vanished on a flight from Teller, Alaska to the Nanuk with supplies (TIME, Jan. 6). The bodies of Eielson and Borland were not in the snow-drifted plane. The motor had been flung 100 ft. by the crash. The untouched supplies suggested they had not lived to attempt...
...Incorporated by Richard III, their titles are: Earl Marshal, Deputy Earl Marshal, Garter Principal King of Arms, Clarenceux King of Arms South of Trent, Norroy King of Arms of North of Trent, the heralds Richmond, Windsor, Lancaster, York, Somerset and Chester, the pursuivants Rouge Croix, Bluemantle, Portcullis and Rouge Dragon...
Master Lambton is "The Red Boy," a quaint and pensive child in red velvet seated on a rock overlooking a? landscape of transparent gloom. Master Lambton was the eldest son of the first Earl of Durham; he died in 1831 at the age of 14. His father paid Sir Thomas Lawrence a little more than $3,000 for his portrait...