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...taller-6 ft. 6 in. tall. Swell his great girth, expand his barrel chest. Make him the biggest, handsomest, beefiest John Bull in England. Dress him in a well-cut morning coat, impeccable striped trousers and white spats. Give him a handsome cane. Crown him with a high silk hat. Make him a Knight of Justice of St. John of Jerusalem. Make him the colossal figure who merged under the British Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. the largest group of shipping companies ever created (TIME, Feb. 23). Do all this and you have Baron Kylsant of Carmarthen...
King George, wearing a black silk hat, a cutaway and a gardenia in his buttonhole, put down his field glasses and a man at the side of the track put up the names of the horses who had finished first, second and third in the British Derby at Epsom Downs-Cameronian, Orpen, Sandwich. Immediately there began the amazing procedure of publicizing the real winners of the Derby, which has for years been recognized as merely a spectacular way of deciding the greatest racehorse lotteries in the world. An extraordinary crew, most of them convinced that their success was in some...
...Osborne clambered half out of the cockpit, glanced once at the earth 2,000 ft. below, was seized by the "jitters." He dared not let go, he dared not turn back; so he reached for the steel ring above his heart and yanked it. In a split second the silk 'chute whipped out of its pack in the propeller blast, jerked Private Osborne from his perch-and fouled itself securely on the plane's tail surfaces. Twenty feet below the unhappy soldier dangled, swinging out behind the speeding plane like the weighted tail of a kite, while...
...also been his partner in Kuhn, Loeb. About 10:30 he went to his bedroom, put his knife, wallet, loose change and other knickknacks on the dresser, went to bed. About 4 a. m. he awakened and felt a strange sensation near his heart. He arose, put on a silk dressing gown, wrapped himself in a blanket and sat by the window. It was in this position that he was found by his valet who entered the room to awaken him at 7 o'clock...
Died. Hiram Royal Mallinson, 59, president of H. R. Mallinson & Co. Inc. (silks), member of the board of governors of the Silk Association of America; of heart disease; in Manhattan, upon being sued for $1,000,000 by his son-in-law, one Eugene V. Bowen. He claims the Mallinsons caused his wife, Lorna Mallinson Bowen, to kill herself three years ago by disparaging her marriage and demanding a divorce...