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George VI. The man who embodies England's compromise of classes is the King. They have turned the rose beds at Windsor Castle into vegetable gardens. Queen Elizabeth practices sharpshooting. George VI, King of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions Beyond the Seas, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India, dodges bombs, eats by ration card, works some 20 hours a day. He is Defender of the Faith in a deeper sense, says Author Kraus, "than his ancestors and predecessors in a thousand years of British Monarchy." For "the war has transformed King and nation alike...
Though far from being a drug on the market, the number of sulfa drugs has increased so rapidly during the past two years that not even doctors can keep their uses straight. In the July issue of California and Western Medicine last week, Drs. Lowell Addison Rantz and Windsor Cooper Cutting gave a brief review of the whole sulfonamide family, with the diseases on which each drug works best. The ideal sulfa drug, they said, is still to seek. Requirements: it must be as strong as possible, without poisoning the patient...
After five days in Palm Beach the Duchess of Windsor, who in 1936 was willing to leave England but not by air, stepped with her Duke aboard Harold Vanderbilt's commodious Lockheed Lodestar, flew back to the Bahamas on her first flight through...
...first public appearance at the China Station he held a full-dress parade at Hong Kong race track seated on a handsome brown horse, clanking unnautical golden spurs. He used to be a great athlete-an all-Navy cricket and rugby player, a squash-courts intimate of Edward of Windsor, an enthusiastic pursuer of the fox's brush-and still keeps himself trim by touching the floor 100 times every morning. He looks so spruce that he is often taken for a brother of his elder...
...Percy was a landlubber for only the first 14 of his 61 years, and he came out of World War I a Captain. Once a squash-courts pal of the Duke of Windsor, he is the possessor of a face which fancies somewhat "that little man with the mousetrap mouth," Jellicoe of Jutland, of a sympathetic, discreet presence somewhere between the bedside manner of a family doctor and the last-testament-drafting manner of a family lawyer, and of a high reputation for naval alertness...