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...patriarchal Dean of Windsor representing King Edward VIII, Eton's Fellows, scholarly Eton Headmaster Claude Aurelius ('The Emperor") Elliott, and 1,100 top-hatted Etonians. Up to the outer doors of School Yard walked Lord Hugh with stately, processional steps. His three knocks on the great oak door significantly implied that the Fellows of Eton need not admit the King's nominee unless they wanted to. The Fellows, though, had decided that they wanted Lord Hugh, admitted him. Crossing School Yard to Upper Chapel he produced his royal warrant to prove he was no impostor, listened...
...Chicago's suburban Oak Park 100 American Legionaries with overseas caps and a big U. S. flag appeared at the First Congregational Church to censor an address to its young peoples' society by Illinois' Communist Gubernatorial Candidate Samuel T. Hammersmark. Also present were some 500 Oak Park matrons & men who hissed, booed, yowled, screamed "Liar!" and "Murderer" so lustily that the Legionaries were forced to reverse their role, protect the speaker from his audience. Up stood the church's Pastor Albert Buckner Coe at meeting's end, said to Red Hammersmark...
...ailing Pope Pius XI. The other is the bishop of Father Coughlin's own diocese, aged but spunky Michael James Gallagher. Without the explicit consent of one of these, no other Roman Catholic hierarch, be he bishop, archbishop, or cardinal, can touch a hair of the Royal Oak, Mich, radiorator's unruly head. Completely unofficial has been the bitter and well-publicized criticism of Father Coughlin by Boston's conservative old William Cardinal O'Connell (TIME, Dec. 11, 1933 et seq.). Last week another potent Roman Catholic Churchman, Cincinnati's Archbishop John Timothy McNicholas, administered...
...Garden City Golf Club, where the National Amateur Golf Championship was played last week, is an extraordinary institution. No women have ever been allowed in its low oak-paneled clubhouse. The course, sprawling over four sandy miles of Long Island's central plain, is dotted with ghoulish hazards placed there by the late Walter J. Travis, the club's most famed member and the best golfer in the U. S. at the turn of the Century. Most famed hazard designed by Golfer Travis is a deep pit. the size of a giant's grave, beside the 18th...
...tiny pieces of silver are evidence that as far back as the middle 1600's there were counterfeiters abroad in the land providing just one more obstacle for the struggling colonists to overcome. Genuine coins which are to be seen include three of the "pine tree" variety and four "oak tree." There was a third type minted, a "willow tree" design, but there are none of this pattern in the Robinson display...