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...over the hardest course in the world, is that anything can happen. Just before Davy Jones took the second fence from the finish last week, one of his reins broke near the bit. The part of the crowd of 250,000 that was standing near the finish saw the Hon. Anthony Mildmay steer his father's horse desperately over the jump, but on the flat again Davy Jones veered sharply, ran off the course...
...Prix de Rome scholarships. Recognizing these facts, Manhattan's Yale Club last week opened its first annual exhibition of professional Yale artists. Graduates responded enthusiastically. Over 70 Yale artists sent 116 pictures, 23 pieces of sculpture. In age exhibitors ranged from 87-year-old Edwin H. Blashfield (1914 Hon.) to recently graduated John Stull (1934). Other famed exhibitors: Muralist Eugene Francis Savage (1924); Etcher Troy Kinney (1896); Sculptor Wheeler Williams (1918); Satirist Reginald Marsh (1920); Portraitists Augustus Vincent Tack (1912), Deane Keller...
...Smoking." The Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin could not retreat from London, but he retreated as far as he could into homely reticence and obfuscation at No. 10 Downing St. With the peace of Europe at stake, according to all the newspapers Squire Baldwin does not read, attendance by the Prime Minister as the League Council convened in Queen Anne's Room at St. James's Palace would have been in accord with British tradition. He stayed home...
Proceedings were opened by the statesman whom alphabetical rotation had made President of the League Council at this session, the Rt. Hon. Stanley Melbourne Bruce, High Commissioner in London of the Commonwealth of Australia and onetime Premier. In a few words Mr. Bruce voiced thanks to the King for having loaned a portion of his residence to the League. It was not felt necessary, added Mr. Bruce, to put up "No Smoking" signs since members of the Council would realize that if they smoked this would pollute the King's hangings & rugs...
...form of a crisp White Paper of 19 closely-printed pages the House of Commons received last week a fateful invitation from the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin. In a general way the Prime Minister invited a confidence vote of which the result might be to spend $1,500,000,000 as rapidly as possible for further Armament, or to spend immensely more, should His Majesty's Government think best. The White Paper was a bid to be accorded virtual carte blanche-billions for Armament, and no questions asked. In the words of the paper: "Any attempt to estimate...