Notes

Among the people (600 of them) whom the King "was graciously pleased to honor" on the occasion of his 60th birthday (TIME, June 8), were:

Baronetcy: Sir John Bland-Sutton, President of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Knighthoods: Bernard Partridge, famous cartoonist of Punch; Barry Jackson, manager of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre; Hamilton Harty, composer.

Orders of Chivalry: Sir William Tyrrell, permanent Under Secretary of the Foreign Office; Baron Desborough, international sport; Sir Frederic Kenyon, Director of the British Museum; J. A. M. Elder, Australian Commissioner to the U. S.; John J. Broderick, commercial counsellor of the British Embassy at Washington.

Perhaps the most interesting award was to one B. W. Tibbie, who voluntarily has given 44 pints of blood in transfusion operations. He received the Order of the British Empire "for public services in saving life."

Thomas Hardy, famed novelist, celebrated his 85th birthday quietly at his home, Max Gate, in Dorchester. He received hundreds of congratulatory mes sages.

The late Lord Curzon's book, British Government in India, was posthumously published last week. He was engaged in correcting proofs of the book at the time he was fatally stricken (TIME, Mar. 30). The book, which takes the reader behind the scenes in India, is sure to be of great value and absorbing interest, for few men have followed the course of events in India as did Lord Curzon, him self once Viceroy of that land.

A total of 349 divorce cases were on the agenda of Sir Henry Duke, President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice. Those suing: Duchess of Westminster, Lord Gort, Lady Essex, Lady Vestey. In two cases: Lady Dunn is the petitioner, while Lady Queensberry ntervenes in defense ; Lord Queensberry petitions, while Sir J. H. Dunn intervenes.

The Dean of the Chapter of St. Paul's Cathedral agreed to permit a memorial tablet to the late John Singer Sargent n the crypt, where the remains of many famous men, including Lord Nelson, lie.

There is a rule common to most, if not all, foxhunters, that there must be no smoking while "in the pink" (dressed in the scarlet hunt coat). Last week, Prince Henry, the King's third son, absentmindedly pulled out his pipe and lit it while waiting for the hounds to pick up the scent. Members of the hunt looked aghast, but their amazement quickly changed to delight; and in five minutes some 20 pipes were going. Thus was another precedent created.

* There are six states and one territory in the Australian Commonwealth: New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, Northern Territory.