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...DEVILS AND CANON BARHAM...
...them is Reginald Barham, 47, a portly Englishman who is chief foreign-exchange dealer of the Morgan Guaranty bank in London. Barham commands a team of nine dealers in a small office crammed with telephones and Teletype machines that connect with other dealers. On an average day, Barham and his men buy and sell about $260 million worth of foreign money, and lend and borrow nearly $1 billion more, largely in Eurodollars. Corporations and banks use the borrowings to finance their speculative short selling of weak currencies...
...have a feeling of security out here," says Rivenbark. "There's not someone breathing down your neck. We don't have to worry about a thing. We turn in our check, and that settles everything." Charles Barham, 23, convicted of breaking and entering, makes $50 a week as a cook at a cafe across from the North Carolina State College campus in Raleigh...
...great carrier Ark Royal, the cruiser Sydney and the battleship Barham were destroyed within eleven days in November 1941. On Dec. 7 came the U.S. disaster at Pearl Harbor, three days later the sinking of the battleship Prince of Wales and the battle cruiser Repulse off the coast of Malaya. The Royal Navy, upon which Britain depended for her strength and the U.S. for security in the Atlantic, faced the worst crisis since April...
Almost indiscriminately, with complete good will and inexhaustible curiosity, Eleanor Roosevelt looked at every facet of English life. No one was any longer the least bit surprised where she turned up. In the tiny Kentish village of Barham, the proud members of the pig war club informed her that their chubbiest, pinkest piglet was named Franklin. Holding Franklin, who is being fattened even more for a Christmas raffle, Mrs. Roosevelt said soberly: "I shall tell my husband that I've seen...