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Lieut. Colonel Archibald Roosevelt, only surviving son* of the original "Teddy," was retired from active service at 51. He had been ailing off & on since he was shipped home sick from New Guinea in 1944, was last stationed at Georgia's Camp Gordon...
...somewhat more massive corpse was the Liberal Party, which, caught in Labor's bloody angle, lost seven of its 18 parliamentary seats, and failed to re-elect its leader, Sir Archibald Sinclair, its president, Lady Violet Bonham Carter, or its most celebrated candidate, Social Planner Sir William Beveridge...
...Labor has won 260 seats, the Liberals might hold the balance of power. The Liberals are not expected to gain more than seven new seats, bringing their total to 25. Liberal Leader Sir Archibald Sinclair is one of Winston Churchill's closest friends and a Conservative-Liberal coalition government was possible. But if Labor has won 100 new seats and even a part of the 50 doubtful seats, the Conservative majority would be narrowed to the point where it was all but unworkable...
Married. Mary Hillard MacLeish, 21, schoolteacher daughter of Poet Archibald MacLeish. Assistant Secretary of State and ex-Librarian of Congress; and Navy Ensign Karl Grimm, 22; in Alexandria...
...Archibald Percival Wavell was born (1883) near his father's barracks in Essex. He was cradled to the blare of bugles, lulled by the thud of marching feet. At the age of six, he first saw India (on the same trip he also took his first look at Egypt). A boy of few words, he noted briefly in his diary: "Went ashore at Port Said." He received a stern classical schooling at Winchester (the twelfth of his line to go there), proceeded comfortably through Sandhurst, then, like his father before him, joined the Black Watch Regiment, in which...