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...letters from Lawrence which were extracted from him by ingenious Ernest Thurtle, a Manhattan-born member of the House of Commons. In 1929 Mr. Thurtle rose in debate to expostulate against the alleged Afghanistan activities of Lawrence, who was then flying with the Royal Air Force in India as "Aircraftsman Shaw...
Left. By "Aircraftsman Shaw" (Thomas Edward Lawrence), War hero of Arabia who died in a motorcycle crash in Dorset, England (TIME, May 27): $36,684, mostly to his brother...
...faithful departed in the University of Oxford"), which provides 21 graduate fellowships, some of which pay ?300 the first two years. An All Souls fellowship is a rare honor; some men, like Sir William Blackstone of the famed law commentaries, have spent a lifetime there; others, like Aircraftsman Thomas Edward (Lawrence) Shaw, return from time to time...
...mechanic and "the associate of menials"; once a colonel, he is now, by choice, a private; with a reputation that could still be cashed in for much fine gold, he is content with his army pittance of 60¢ a day. This Royal Air Force mechanic, Aircraftsman Thomas Edward Shaw, known to the world as Col. T. E. Lawrence of Arabia, whose most intellectual duty at present is "tinkering with engines," has just finished a four-year spare-time job of translating The Odyssey into English prose...
Long-faced, long-chinned, long waisted, Aircraftsman Shaw looks bright but not commanding. Robert Graves describes him: "He has a trick of holding his hands loosely folded below his breast, the elbows to his sides, and carries his head a little tilted, the eyes on the ground. He can sit or stand for hours at a stretch without moving a muscle. He talks in short sentences, deliberately and quietly without accenting his words strongly. He grins a lot and laughs seldom. He is a dead shot with a pistol and a good rifle-shot. His greatest natural gift is being...