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...Desborough of Taplow, famed afterdinner speaker, chairman of the Pilgrim Society of Great Britain. Baron Desborough has other distinctions quite as noteworthy. In his time he has stroked a crew across the English Channel, swum twice across the Niagara River, been champion swordsman of the British Army, Mayor of Maidenhead, chairman of the Fresh Water Fish Committee. But it is as chairman of the Pilgrims that he is now best known to the world. As such he publicly dines some prominent U. S. citizen nearly once a month.* Last week he and the Pilgrims had one of the most notable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Birdsong & Findhorn | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

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