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...owns in the Coast Range Mountains of California a domain of hundreds of acres, luxuriously complete with castles, works of art, and modern plumbing. His wife is Millicent Willson Hearst, a onetime actress, active in many charities. They have five sons, two of whom are already old enough to function in their father's news factories. Indeed, George, the oldest (23), already controls and operates the New York Mirror and the New York American...
...this cheerful readiness to provide a feast for every eye that so endears the British Royal Family to Englishmen and partly accounts for the World popularity of the four Windsor boys. Even when only two of them are available for a state function they manage admirably to perform their duty to the public. Thus at Quebec last week, thousands of Canadians were joyous as there descended from the S. S. Empress of Australia: 1) His Royal Highness, Edward of Wales, clad Scottishly in the uniform of a Colonel of the Seaforth Highlanders; and 2) His Royal Highness, Prince George Alexander...
...brave horses. If so, he has changed his daily regime disclosed last Easter. It was then his custom to set out at 4 p. m. daily for a drive-in his carriage week days, in one of his motor cars Sundays (TIME, April 25). The Vatican equerries apparently now function more as garage attendants than as stable attendants...
...many a musician and many a dramatist, the Bayreuth Festival in Germany partakes of the nature of a ceremony in honor of a saint. The saint is Richard Wagner, who stated-and lived according to his statement-that the artist's function is a religious one, to lead the public mind "by ideal representation of the allegorical picture to the comprehension of the inner essence, the divine, unspeakable Truth." To that end, he composed his series of operas, drama-music spectacles called Der Ring des Niebe-lungen, knowing full well that they could never be adequately presented by conventional...
...pressure they beat up pushes the plane backward instead of forward. If reliable, the Jenkins invention promised to be even more effective than the wheel brakes already in use on land planes. Wheel brakes can be thrown out of commission by a heavy landing. The reversible-blade brake will function as long as the motor runs...