The Duke of Portland has accepted the presidency of the Wren Society, in succession to the late Lord Balfour. The position is peculiarly appropriate, because the well-known early portrait of Sir Christopher Wren, by Gascar, is at Welbeck Abbey, and from the estate came some of the great timbers used in building St. Paul’s Cathedral. ■ Two swallows don’t make a summer, they barely make a decent drink. Pessimist: A fellow who can’t imagine a castle in the am without a mortgage on it.
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Evening Star, Issue 22448, 19 September 1936, Page 22
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83Page 22 Advertisements Column 2 Evening Star, Issue 22448, 19 September 1936, Page 22
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