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...James B. Carey. Only urgent business in Atlantic City and Paris kept away A. F. of L.'s William Green, France's Edouard Herriot (they sent messages). Among the speakers were bigwigs from Poland, Sweden and no fewer than seven from Britain, headed by Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, former Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who had come to address a U. S. audience for the first time. Columbia's Anglophile Nicholas Murray Butler beamed on his visitors, bestowed honorary degrees on four of the Britons (and one on M. Herriot In absentia...
...three major U. S. broadcasting systems and several short-wave stations broadcast speeches to the four quarters of the earth. High point of the Congress came when Earl Baldwin (whom Dr. Butler in the excitement introduced as "Earl of Bewdsley") rose to speak. He began calmly...
Died. James Francis Harry St. Clair-Erskine, Earl of Rosslyn, 70, gay blade; of shock following a tragic report that his daughter's foot had been amputated by a crocodile;* in London. In 1927 his patrician relatives groaned, unsuccessfully tried to suppress his memoirs, My Gamble With Life (written "solely for money"), telling about his three marriages, two divorces (wife No. 2 recommended him as "an altogether delightful person, but absolutely impossible"); the loss of a $1,500,000 inheritance, mostly by gambling, which fascinated him as a mathematical problem to which he was always finding a new "solution...
Blandings Castle, the Shropshire seat of pig-mad, sieve-memoried Clarence, ninth Earl of Emsworth, is once more the scene of action, and the threatened abduction of his prize porker, the Empress of Blandings, is again a mainspring of the plot. Before the final exposure, young love is triumphant and the Empress back snuffling...
...well knew, no doctor could operate without the patient's consent. And the patient would not consent. Said he: "If I don't die I will have it to do over again. I had more trouble than I could stand." Asked for an opinion, Attorney General Earl Warren told the hospital that Dr. Cardwell was within his rights. Mrs. Cardwell, found traveling with a friend, and Son Samuel Cardwell, who heard the news by radio, both agreed. So the doctors put their knives away, waited for the patient to suffer a change of heart. Next morning...