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...really Clois Francis ("Shorty") Key, who played two years as fullback with the Texas School of Mines in 1930-31? Not at all, declared Father Key. "I ought to know my own son." But even a father's word was not enough for U. C. L. A. Dean Earl J. Miller who forthwith set out for Texas, home of the Keys, to straighten out the case. At Amarillo he found an Earl ("Ox"') Key, Southern Methodist star ten years ago, who insisted that U. C. L. A.'s Key was "Ted" Key all right and he should...
...announcement of her engagement, she and her mother, the Duchess of Buccleuch, traveled the 200-odd miles from Selkirk in this car, and Lady Alice relieved the chauffeur at the wheel when they reached the Scottish Highlands. This Rolls-Royce belongs to Lady Alice's eldest brother, the Earl of Dalkeith...
...Earl owns also, and often drives, a Rover, also a great favorite of Lady Alice. On more than one occasion Lord Dalkeith, summoned suddenly to London, has returned to discover that his Rover is missing. More often than not Lady Alice is the culprit...
...enthusiasm of the Duke of Gloucester for motoring is largely due to the Buccleuch family. The Earl of Dalkeith and Lord George Scott have been for years close personal friends of his, and now, instead of traveling by train, the Duke nearly always visits his fiancée's family by car. The Duke's favorite at the moment is a Sunbeam, and Lady Alice now knows as much about the car as the Duke himself. She has driven it often with the Duke sitting beside her, and Border rumor has it that he actually proposed...
...opener, is on the grand scale with a nicely turned bit of satire and Mary Boland leading a well rounded cast. "Porgy and Bess," with George Gershwin's excellent score is a modern operatic version of Heyward's striking negro story and a good thing for the more serious. Earl Carroll's "Sketch Book" appeals in Carroll fashion to the more elemental instincts...