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Walter Hines Page - onetime editor of the Forum, the Atlantic Monthly, the World's Work, one-time Ambassador to Great Britain -is now dead. But his reputation has grown more and more honorable, the publication of his letters has grown more and more profitable...
...grand Chief whose wigwam is Buckingham Palace." Last week they arrived in London and set about securing an audience with "the biggest Chief of all." The Duke of York signified his "sincere pleasure and grateful thanks" by accepting invitations to become the Honorary President of the Yorktown World Forum,* Yorktown Country Club and the Yorktown Historical Society. The acceptance of these invitations was somehow or other construed to mean that the Duke would visit Yorktown, Va., next year, but this was officially denied in London, although both the Duke and Duchess hoped they would at some future date be able...
...Yorktown World Forum was formed to perpetuate the Yorktown battlefield where Lord Cornwallis surrendered. British Ambassador Sir Esmé Howard, speaking recently, referred to a visit to the battlefield: "I felt that all bitterness, thank God, was past between us. I felt that just as our heritage of poets and sailors, of philosophers, lawgivers and statesmen belongs to you, so the greatness of your people is a greatness of which I, as an Englishman, have a right to be proud...
...well-informed person who is persona grata at the Quirinal, who has the Pope's ear and who has sources of information denied even to Premier Mussolini-according to this great unnamed mystery man whose ways are more incomprehensible than those of the cats in Trajan's Forum, the Queen makes cheese for the King...
Died. Professor Giacomo Boni, 66, archaeologist, who became famed through his researches into the antiquities of Rome and was director of excavations at the Forum; on the Palatine Hill, at Rome, from an apoplectic stroke. King Vittorio Emanuele and Premier Benito Mussolini sent condolences to his family. Signor Cremonesi, Royal Commissioner of Rome (equivalent of mayor), sent in the name of the Eternal City a guard of honor to the mortuary, announced that the funeral expenses would be borne by the city...