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...ceremony drew to a close and King Michael descended the Tribune he ran happily to Princess Helene, crying: "Let's go home, mama, I'm hungry." Soon a special train carried His Majesty swiftly to his distant chateau, the Little Pelesh. At Bucharest the royal grown-ups turned their attention to the funeral of King Ferdinand...
...adolescent boy who had these highflown fancies was subject to waking visions that almost amounted to seizures. In the grown youth, an intense, ascetic student of electro-dynamics whose extravagant notions of planet power had given place to practical work on telephones, this visionary weakness became translated into an extraordinary ability to visualize, in minutest detail and exact dimensions, new mechanical devices sprung from an inventive brain...
...World Conference on Faith & Order. This conference, which will meet under the presidency of Bishop Charles H. Brent of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Western New York, will try to improve sodality between Christian sects. *Bishop Manning who has come to seem dour and harsh as he has grown pontifical, in London repeated his great sermon castigating "companionate marriages," the term by which he describes ephemeral connubialities wherein contraceptives are used (TIME, July 4). Because he was in England, where wrath against the Russian Soviets is temporarily being kept hot (TIME, May 23), he made his sermon timely by blaming...
...championship cup was donated. Tom Morris Jr., his whiskers now fully and handsomely grown, went again to Prestwick and won the first leg on the cup. Scottish golfers were dismayed but cheerful. What could you do against the son and pupil of old Tom Morris, who had himself won four of the first ten championships after they were started...
Golf spread and changed after 1875. Champions rose and fell. Harry Vardon won the British Open six times; J. H. Taylor and James Braid, five times each. But they were grown men before they became golf masters, and the few youngsters that flashed into prominence from time to time winked out briefly." Not until 1926, when he won the British Open with a 291 that tied J. H. Taylor's record of 1909, did another young man come along who really played them "Sure and Far." Last year Robert Tyre Jones Jr. of Atlanta, with his 68 at Sunningdale (while...