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...Bernard Law Montgomery was paying a filial visit to his father's old college, Cambridge's famed Trinity. His father, Henry Hutchinson Montgomery, had made a great name at Trinity as an athlete; he had been a militant Christian who became an athletic Bishop; at 70, bald, snow-bearded and retired, he still walked his 18 miles a day. Standing before the Tudor Gothic dining hall on one side of Nevile's Court, the General pointed to the flight of seven broad, semicircular steps, said proudly: "My father jumped those at one bound...
...English Genius." A small, bald, mustached man, General Fuller was retired from the British Army in 1933 for a sharp (and justified) cry for reforms in army mechanizations. Later, he was a candidate for Parliament on Sir Oswald Mosley's Fascist ticket. He argued the Axis case, appeared with a glib Briton named William Joyce, who became better known as "Lord Haw Haw" (see cut) when England faced destruction. On the war's eve, Hitler invited General Fuller to his birthday celebration. (Said Radio Berlin: ". . . The English genius...
Noel Coward, on a morale-building tour of South Africa, nettled Afrikaner Nationalist Politico Paul Sauer by his imperial arrival in Cape Town. Egg-bald Sauer took the teakwood floor of the House of Assembly to fume: "The Governor of our sister state [Southern Rhodesia's Sir Evelyn Baring] traveled in a small coupe compartment but the crooner (a crooner is someone who sings as if something were wrong with his throat) came in a special coach. Have we lost our balance to such an extent that we make heroes of film actors and music-hall luminaries...
Died. Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, 82, President of Finland from 1931 to 1937; in Finland. Big, bald, bristling Svinhufvud (translation: pig head) was the typical Finnish national hero; a strong man, consistently pro-German and anti-Russian. In 1901 Svinhufvud became a judge under the Czarist regime, fought Imperial Russian ukases until 1914, when he was banished to Siberia. On his return to Finland in 1917 he picked Germany as a good thing, next year asked the Kaiser to name one of his sons King of Finland. When the Allies won the war, Svinhufvud resigned, General Baron Mannerheim came to power...
Died. Lucius Nathan Littauer, 85, glovemaker and first citizen of Gloversville, N.Y.; in New Rochelle, N.Y. Gentle, bald, waving-mustached Littauer was Harvard '78, a high-tariff Republican Congressman (1897-1907), a philanthropist whose most noted single gift ($2,250,000) founded Harvard's graduate School of Public Administration and Littauer Center. In 1939 he said he had "confidence for the future in spite of the present." In 1941, asked his opinion of the world at large, he sighed, "Don't ask me that. I'm a pessimist...