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Vincent Richards, youthful expert from America, took the championship of London from S. M. Jacob of India in the finals of the Queen's Club matches. Score...
Many stories are in circulation about the ex-Premier, some of which are doubtless untrue. It is said that he wished to accompany King Boris to the United States to find him an American queen. Another report has it that he wished to make King Boris abdicate so that he could become King of Bulgaria. The greatest value of these yarns, as they probably are, is that they faithfully portray the character of the man. He was in the habit of speaking with almost brutal directness, i. e., his warning to King Ferdinand in September, 1915: " If you plunge this...
Married. Lady Mary Cambridge, niece of Queen Mary of England, to Henry Hugh Arthur Fitzroy Somerset, Marquis of Worcester, at London...
Died. Maurice Hewlett, 62, novelist, authority on heraldry, of pneumonia, at Broadchalke, Salisbury, England. Among his famous books are The Forest Lovers, Richard Yea-and-Nay, The Queen's Quair...
George V: " Accompanied by my wife, I paid a visit to a new maternity wing of Queen Mary's Hospital in the poor district of London. When I stooped to rock the cradle of one of my tiniest subjects, the nurse in charge hurried up to me and said politely: 'We don't rock babies nowadays, Your Majesty.' She explained that it had been found that rocking made babies...