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...Bang and Queen with English citizenry to the number of 100,000 assisted at the Grand National. Crowds clogged the mist-streaked course, restless with suspense and excitement. Sixteen jumps obstruct the Aintree Course, 14 of which must be twice crossed before the finish. Annual efforts are made by well-intentioned groups of the British public to reduce the number and the rigor of the hazards. At the 82nd Grand National only one horse finished without a fall...
...young lord was expelled from Oxford for keeping a racing stud, he proclaimed to his young friends three ambitions: to marry the richest woman in England; to be Prime Minister: to win the Grand National. He married Hannah, only daughter of Baron Meyer Amschel de Rothschild. He became Queen Victoria's Prime Minister in 1894. He won the Derby three times. He is alive today (one year younger than Chauncey Depew) with one chief regret: no horse of his ever won the Grand National...
...Oxford boat, he did his job for Oxford on the English Thames as he did for Harvard on the Thames that passes Red Top. Tevis Hume, formerly of Princeton, and F. K. Brown, of Washing- ton, were the Americans who assisted at the Oxford track victory at the Queen's Club, London. Hume won the 220-yard hurdles in 25% seconds and Brown took the shot put with 42 feet 8 inches-a 'varsity record. H. M. Abrahams, of Cambridge, with victories in the 100-yard dash, the quarter-mile and the broad jump, was the most brilliant...
...Queen Marie of Roumania...
wedding gown of chiffon moireÚ, with silver thread and pearls, is being made in the famous Nottingham factories. The train will be made of tulle and beautiful old lace, lent me by Queen Mary...