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...Knows What Kings?" John Buchan's useful mission is to redeem the Governor-Generalship from the slough of Canadian distaste into which it sank under his predecessor, the Earl of Bessborough. If Canadians are to go on paying $43,799 a year to an official from overseas whose legal status is "the Person of the King in Canada," then they want to get something for their money. Admirers of the first Baron Tweedsmuir, while generous in their tributes to John Buchan's intellectual gifts, single out his extreme flair for effective flattery, conveyed with canny Scottish tact...
...arrived and went to work. Having only two salvage ships at hand last week when it was estimated more than 50 tugs were needed, officials of Merritt, Chapman & Scott Inc., No. 1 U. S. salvagers, decided to make the Rotterdam rescue herself. Lightening ship as much as possible, they sank eight 34½-ton anchors astern, ran block and tackles from each to the Rotterdam's winches. Then, with the two salvage ships helping somewhat, the stricken liner slowly dragged herself back into deep water. Towed off to Kingston at once, she was found virtually undamaged, was expected back...
...were peppered with water-filled paper sacks. Caught by two city detectives in the act of dousing someone beneath his hotel window was a hero a war ahead of most of the other celebrants-Rear Admiral Richmond Pearson Hobson, 65, who has spent most of his life since he sank the Merrimac at the entrance to Santiago Harbor crusading against liquor and narcotics...
Crossing a Swedish bog during an elk-hunt, a royal Swedish horse lost its footing, sank, threw 77-year-old King Gustav V. Pulled out of the bog, His Majesty sucked a bruised finger, quipped "When one is young these things don't matter." William Edward Dodd, U. S. Ambassador to Germany, sent by airplane from Berlin to Moscow a package of hominy grits for silver-whiskered Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois recuperating from pneumonia...
...mates Frank Barnden and John Johnson worked to set them up, John McL. Johanson sank four shots Saturday afternoon as the Freshman soccer team blasted Tabor Academy here...