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...London an august glass door was smudged by curious noses (belonging to pressmen who had been barred along with all other observers from the courtroom). Above each nose a pair of eyes peered intently at five learned judges, at a culprit quite as learned as they. Eyebrows were lifted all round because the five judges were defying tradition and sitting without wigs or gowns?an event said to be without English legal precedent during the last century...
...volume on natural history, George (Kodaks) Eastman of Rochester, N. Y., sailed last week from Manhattan for Mombasa and the African interior, accompanied by technicians of the Museum, armed with a battery of his cinema cameras in several sizes. He expected to be joined in France by that indefatigable pair of sportsman-explorers, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Ethan Akeley.* At quarrying with a camera, Mr. Eastman is no novice. For years his humane-hunting grounds have been the Far West and Canada. Other comrades on this trip: Audley D. Stewart, able Rochester medico, Daniel B. Pomeroy, genial New York banker...
...Prince. At Birmingham, most celebrated of British industrial centres, Edward of Wales visited the local Trade Fair and stepped upon a pair of scales to oblige their maker. The pointer spun, stopped at 137 pounds, to the satisfaction of the Prince who has tapered off his meat lately, lest he grow fat, and his drink, lest his tendency to nervousness increase. He is said to be "setting the fashion for modest four-course dinners...
...Last year we were at the bottom of the Big Three cellar and it's going to be hard work getting out this year. At present the prospects are not as good as they were in 1925. I don't think the undergraduate body wants to stand for another pair of scores such as 25 to 15 and 18 to 4 at the hands of Yale...
...under the impression the Court resides at the late Mr. Carnegie's far more sumptuous Peace Palace. The tastes of the Prince Consort (Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin) are likewise circumscribed within the same prudent limits. Hence, when a large appropriation was recently placed at the disposal of the royal pair to be expended on the celebration of their 25th wedding anniversary, the foreign diplomats at The Hague speculated whimsically upon the form which this "celebration" would take...