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Last week was the 27th and most critical of World War II. There were signs of peace. The Allies had done nothing to start the three-month struggle between Finland and Russia, but paradoxically the indications that that struggle might end totted up as a disaster for them...
Died. David Alexander Edward Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford, 69, Premier Earl of Scotland, 18 years an elected member of Parliament, onetime Lord Privy Seal, elder brother of Sir Ronald Lindsay; of pneumonia; in Wigan, England...
...pride beat San Antonio's pride, 3 & 2. Last week the tables were turned. Long-striding Betty Jameson pulled away from Miss Kirby in the first nine holes and never let her catch up. Two up at the ninth, 4 up at the 18th, 2 up at the 27th, Miss Jameson took the match and title on the 34th green with the identical score by which her opponent beat her two years...
Lord Balniel, 38, is the eldest son and heir of the 27th Earl of Crawford. He is a director of the Bank-of-England-controlled $28,000,000 Lancashire Steel Corp., Ltd. He is a member of Parliament, one of 415 Conservative Party members who give Prime Minister Chamberlain his majority, crisis after crisis. So are two of his brothers-in-law. So is his wife's brother-in-law and the ex-husband of another of her sisters. So are the husbands of three of her first cousins. Viscount Wolmer, another Tory M.P., is distantly related...
...most tragic episodes . . . occurred when a ghost writer who was employed to write a farewell address for Hon. John White, Speaker of the House of Representatives in the 27th Congress . . . copied copiously from the farewell address delivered by Vice President Aaron Burr. . . . Mr. White, being unable to laugh at the comic position into which the ghost writer had placed him, was on the contrary so overcome with mortification and disgust that he committed suicide...