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...director of shipping, hardbitten, hard-driving Hector Harris Robson, 52, Australian-born vice president of United Fruit Co., lately a $1-a-year man in the Maritime Commission. Robson's job will be to use every inch of ship space to best effect, see that never again does a ship sail-as one carrying a fleet of Army trucks did recently-with ballast where cargo could have been piled...
...school, now at the University, which had been sweated away upon the river, earnestly peering one way and going the other." Today, of all the friendly clique of athletic esthetes, the "long-haired boys" who went down from Oxford to the R.A.F. training camps in the autumn of 1939, Australian-born Richard Hillary is the lone survivor. To tell the story of why and how they fought is his real purpose...
Pithy and popular is Australian-born Lord Atkin, ardent Welshman by adoption, one of Parliament's five "law lords" (who act as a sort of supreme court, reviewing cases on points of national importance carried from the Court of Appeal). Lord Atkin is noted for his liberalism regarding divorce legislation. He once attacked a proposed bill to make divorce impossible until after five years of marriage, citing the case of a soldier whose wife had deceived him. Said Lord Atkin: "It seems to me a monstrous thing that that man should not have been entitled to be freed from...
Robert Menzies is a conservative in a country that was New Dealish long before the New Deal, and where the labor movement is so tough that Australian-born Harry Bridges is just a pale expatriate compared to the sort they grow at home. Americans say that Menzies is like Wendell Willkie except that he won. A grocer's son and a prosperous lawyer before he went into politics, he was damned up & down under as the spokesman of the fiendish Interests, did not win labor's confidence until Australia's war production began to show results...
Died. Florence (Florrie) Forde (Australian-born, Cockney by adoption), 65, famed London music-hall singer who introduced Tipperary; of a brain hemorrhage; in Aberdeen, Scotland, after a charity performance at which she sang her most famous song: Good byeee, good byeee, wipe the tear, baby dear, from your eyeee...