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Battling triumphantly with a relentless fate, he has had to meet and solve the most momentous questions that have ever confronted the American people...
...meet at the Colombes Stadium and the steeplechase at Auteuil, to the other extreme of the marvelous Italian Art exhibit, every moment was well planned. American Ambassador Jesse Isidor Straus showed great interest in the experiment and also inquired about Harvard, his alma mater, being particularly concerned with the fate of the Latin requirement which was being very much discussed at the time...
...Noble Lady seemed to think "Old George" a boor and intimated as much to his face. Old enough to be her father, hoary Mr. Lansbury remained seated where Fate had placed him. Next day Viscountess Astor elaborately demonstrated what a lady she is by arriving early, taking her favorite seat, and then as Old George came in, rising with a sneer "to give the gentleman my seat." ¶ Observed with further distaste efforts by Scottish Laborite Jock McGovern to make his stubborn point that members of the Royal Family, considering the size of their private incomes, are paid too much...
After acquiring an accumulated distaste for all royalty, built up by subjection to the Americanism of our schools and politicians, I have, during the past year, revised my ideas regarding George V and his household to the point of admitting that it would not be an unbearable fate to have been born a subject of H.M. This transformation is a direct result of reading TIME. Your picture-composed of just those intimate glimpses of no consequence which Mr. McFarlan decries-has enabled me to see in Edward of Wales a character for which neither Reader McFarlan nor TIME need apologize...
...Crockett, third novel of Mary Ellen Chase, 48, Smith College English professor, whose Mary Peters was one of last year's more durable bestsellers. Covering the history of the Crockett family from 1830 to 1933, it is packed with data on U. S. shipping, describes in detail the fate of each of the many Crocketts as they descended the scale from clipper ships to schooners, to coastwise steamers, to fishing smacks, to ferryboats. Silas Crockett II ended up working in a herring factory. Less a novel than a family chronicle, it is filled with glowing tributes to the sturdiness...