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The Hearst Press reported that one Edna Brown, 19, a British hotel waitress, swam the Thames River to the grounds of Windsor Castle, emerged "radiant" in her "youthful attractiveness" as King George V came up on horseback with two grooms. Miss Brown, "dumbfounded, curtsied"; the King bowed, asked, "Where is your boat?" He watched while she swam back. Next day the Crown Land Office wrote the hotel across the river a sharp letter. Miss Brown was reprimanded, resigned her job, then was rehired at King George's request. Headlined Hearstpapers: GIRL IN ONE-PIECE SUIT CURTSIES TO KING.

Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") Mo Kec, president of New York City's Board of Aldermen, onetime acting mayor, anti-Tammany white hope for next election, abruptly announced he was quitting politics to become president of Title Guarantee & Trust Co. A newsman asked him: ''Do you mean you're disgusted with politics?" Snapped Mr. McKee: "You're telling me?" Credited with some part in kicking "Holy Joe," Tammany stumbling block, upstairs into a $50,000 job was Tammany's foxy little Boss John Francis Curry.

Spring freshets swelled Michigan's River Rouge, flooded the estate of Henry Ford. The muddy lake lapped to within a few hundred feet of the house, drowned the gardens and bird sanctuaries. Unable to use a car, Mr. Ford was rowed out by boat.

Eastbound from Albuquerque, the Lindberghs sat down on the Texas plains near Amarillo to wait out a blinding sandstorm, slept in their plane, arrived in Kansas City next day to learn they were being nationally headlined as "missing." Col. Lindbergh: ''People shouldn't worry. It's liable to happen any time in the Western country."

At a Manhattan fashion show for charity, socialites paraded in dresses they had worn "on some very happy occasion." Mrs. Payne Whitney wore a gray afternoon ensemble "because every time I have worn it my horse Twenty Grand has won."

Roberta Keene Tubman, descendant of Signer of the Declaration of Independence William Hooper, a vice president of the America's Good-Will Union, was sitting in a Manhattan subway train when a group of communists got on. Lustily they sang the "Internationale." Mrs. Tubman boiled, then rose and gave voice to "The Star-Spangled Banner." Over & over she sang it, pitching it higher and higher. Louder sang the Communists. At the next station more Communists got on, joined in the "Internationale." Mrs. Tubman pitched "The Star-Spangled Banner" still higher. At last she was obliged to get off the train to attend a meeting of the Good-Will Union (an organization for international rapport).

A Dry candidate for New York State's convention on repeal of the 8th Amendment was bald, square-cut Vivian Burnett, original of Little Lord Fauntleroy, written by his mother, Frances Hodgson Burnett, in 1886. Now a free lance writer, he told newshawks: "I was a perfectly normal boy--I got myself just as damn dirty as the other boys. I could write a book about what Fauntleroy has been to me. I try to get away from it but I can't."

At the start of a three-weeks' fast Mahatma Gandhi was released from prison by British authorities. Said he: "Those who expect my fast to kill me will be pleasantly disappointed."

George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick, ablest gentleman rider in the U. S., broke his collar bone when his mount fell in the Raceland Steeplechase at Pimlico, Md.

Sequels

To news of bygone weeks, herewith sequels from last week's news: P: To the resignation of Author Pearl Sydenstricker Buck from Presbyterian foreign mission work in answer to charges of heresy (TIME, May 8); the resignation of Mrs. Henry V. K. Gillmore from the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, commendation of Mrs. Buck by the Middle Atlantic Conference of Congregational and Christian Churches.

P: To the $250,000 suit for defamation of character against Adman Bruce Barton by his onetime file clerk Gertrude Gussenhaven Wagner King (TIME, May 1): dismissal and award of $156 for costs to Mr. Barton in Manhattan Supreme Court. In jail on Barton's charges of attempted extortion, Mrs. King did not appear in court. P: To the injuries (broken arm & leg. internal injuries) of Thomas David Schall Jr., 23, son of Minnesota's blind Senator: an award by a Washington jury of $60,000 plus interest against Standard Oil Co. of N. J., whose truck collided with the Schall automobile near East Riverdale, Md. in 1930.

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