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...Queen Elizabeth's face were badly dressed women with haw-haw accents. . . . The Canadian and American girls would have loved to meet the Queen, but were too good-mannered, cool and dignified to fight their way through the mob. . . . More than once the gentlemen-in-waiting had to link hands to keep the Queen and her two little daughters from being jostled. . . . But no one jostled Queen Mary. . . . Majesty sits on her shoulders and the mob kept a respectful distance from her. . . . Full-bosomed and Junoesque, she moved across the lawns in easy splendor...
VICTORIA FOUR-THIRTY-Cecil Roberts -Macmillan ($2.50). Quiet, almost inaudible novel about a dozen passengers who leave London to make the Orient Express and all keep their seats. Nearest thing to a connecting link between them is the car couplings...
...dream became a nightmare is a far more famed Californian- nimble, thimble-sized John Downey Harvey, son of Society Leader Eleanor Martin and San Francisco's chief dandy in the early 1900s. Like Dr. Roberts, he in his day cast his eyes shoreward, conceived a passenger railroad to link San Francisco and Santa Cruz, 80 mi. south. Downey Harvey incorporated Ocean Shore R. R. in 1905. Big sums were subscribed by prominent San Franciscans and construction soon began at both ends under great engineering difficulties. Then came the 1906 earthquake. Most of the subscribed money was never...
...years later two San Francisco capitalists, Selah Chamberlain and Harry W. Cole, decided to salvage the wreck. Legal squabbles beset the reclamation at once, the biggest coming when the State Highway District claimed the right-of-way to link it into the Carmel-San Simeon Highway. Civic clubs, chambers of commerce and the like have joined forces with the State to wrest the road from Ocean Shore R.R. Last week the battle still raged in court. Meanwhile, Downey Harvey, hav-ing lost $5,000,000 and been forced into bankruptcy, never entered business again. Convicted of fraud...
...quickly guessed what had happened. Lawyer Dwight's name was, rightly or wrongly, down on Secretary Morgenthau's list as a practitioner of income tax devices such as the White House was now condemning. However remotely, Partner Hughes's father's name might now be linked with that of a specimen in the Congressional fishbowl. Instant dissolution of this link was the only thing possible for Mr. Hughes...