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When S. S. President Coolidge docked in Honolulu, Collector of the Port Mrs. Jeannette Hyde seized a case of beer, a case of wine belonging to Passenger Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon, potent British banker. Fined $150. Sir Victor said: "It was really funny, being hauled in by a woman. I was frightfully embarrassed ... I had no idea that I was busting any of your jolly old United States laws...
...funds last year. Italy's team was so depleted by crashes that it canceled its entry. Even England would have had no entry last year had not Lady Houston put up the money after the Government refused it. Last week no one was greatly surprised when Sir Philip Sassoon, Under Secretary for Air, told the House of Commons that the Schneider races were "completely over. . . . The contest has outlived its usefulness...
...moral. Member of an old Huguenot family that has lived in England for generations, daughter of a Victorian clergyman, Edith Olivier lives in Wilton, on the edge of Salisbury Plain, in a house that was once the dairy on the Earl of Pembroke's estate. Near neighbor is Siegfried Sassoon (Memoirs of an Infantry Officer?TIME, Sept. 29). Authoress Olivier rarely goes to London; when she does, Sylvia Townsend Warner and many another writer are glad to see her. Other books: The Love Child, As Far As Jane's Grandmother's, The Triumphant Footman...
...directed upon the Prime Minister last week. Lady Houston, who inherited $35,000,000 from the late shipowning Sir Robert Houston, offered "to prevent the Socialist Government from being spoilsports" by paying the Schneider expenses beyond what the Government itself could afford. A deputation headed by Sir Philip Sassoon, chairman of the Royal Aero Club, and Commander Oliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson visited the Prime Minister. From their meetings Mr. MacDonald emerged with a change of mind. The Government would loan R. A. F. pilots for racing and planes for training, but no money. The Royal Aero Club hurriedly planned...
...signers from England include Edmund Blunden, author of "Undertones of War"; Siegfried Sassoon, who wrote "Memoirs of an Infantry Officer"; Henry W. Nevinson, veteran war correspondent; H. M. Tomlinson, who was a war correspondent and also wrote "All Our Yesterdays." Among other signatories are H. G. Wells, Sir William Orpen. Bertrand Russell, Aldous Huxley, Leonard Woolf, G. D. H. Cole and the Bishop of Birmingham. New York Times