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¶ The third largest library in Great Britain, Cambridge University's new "skyscraper" of twelve stories, was opened by His Majesty last week with an able aphorism: "This magnificent gift . . . reminds us that education knows no national frontiers.'' Cambridge spent $1,145,000 but an additional $1,250,000 was supplied by John D. Rockefeller Jr. Severely modernistic, the new library contains 43 miles of bookshelves, is already known to reactionary Cambridge dons as "That eyesore!"
¶ Just as everyone was getting used to calling him the Duke of Kent, Their Majesties' youngest son emphasized last week that his name is George. As tactfully as possible the public was informed that persons not quite sure whether Princess Marina would accept a wedding present from them will please Prince George by sending a gift of money to his pet hospital, St. George's. All wedding gifts to British Royalty from persons "unknown to themselves or to the Lord Chamberlain" are returned to the would-be donors. Fifty thousand were sent back at the time of popular Princess Mary's marriage to Viscount Lascelles. Exceptions are made for reasons of State and publicity. Thus the official list of wedding gifts accepted by King George's parents includes: "from ten newsboys, a cigaret-holder; from three bus-drivers, a pipe ; from five hansom-cab drivers, a whip."
¶ Totally marooned at Government House in Australia's "Garden Capital," Canberra, last week was the Duke of Gloucester. Reason: a flood which boiled around Government House for miles. Inconvenient, unpopular and sparsely populated, the seven-year-old "Garden Capital" has cost over $50,000,000. Dominion officials felt that His Majesty's third son should see it, barely got him into Government House before the flood burst.