"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:
"Go out for your football team," cried Virginia-born Lady Astor to University of Virginia students. "Politics is a dreary thing. . . ."
As a gesture of international goodwill the English-Speaking Union presented Washington's Smithsonian Institution with a bronze bust of renowned 19th Century Physicist William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, From English scientists came a 1,500-word greeting. Scottish scientists parsimoniously cabled: "Felicitations."
At Totteridge, Hertfordshire, a burglar raided the house of roly-poly Lord Chief Justice Baron Hewart, walked off with worthless papers. Three days later...
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