Word: barringtons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sentimental editorial conference one day last week the London Times's famed Geoffrey Dawson, now 67, retired after 25 years' service, handed his editorship to his assistant, spare. 50-year-old Robert M'Gowan Barrington-Ward.* The Times marked the occasion as an important milestone in its 156-year history as one of the world's great newspapers. Likewise milestone-minded about the Times were other members of the British press -but for different reasons...
Consensus was that new Editor Barrington-Ward would liven up the editorial page, might even print news instead of ads on the front page, that his new first assistant, blue-eyed, white-haired W. F. Casey, will have a chance to write editorials for readers under 40. The Times has lately plumped for social and economic reforms, exorcised the Red bogey, almost earned title to "Thunderer on the Left...
Paul J. Allen '36, of East Barrington, N. H., as research fellow in Biology; candidate for Ph.D. University of California...
...West Barrington...
Actually, Lord Haw-Haw is no better informed than any one of several other English speakers on the German radio. The difference is that he has been ridiculed to fame. The Daily Express's Jonah Barrington dubbed him Haw-Haw last September. BBC comics lost no time ribbing him in rhyme. He became a character in a revue, was impersonated at Mayfair affairs. Trying to figure out his real identity became a national British pastime. He was spotted as (among others): 1) a German professor who once preached Naziism in Scotland; 2) Norman Baillie-Stewart, famed ex-Seaforth Highlander...