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Lord Burghley (rhymes with Pat Hurley), new Governor of Bermuda, ex-Olympic hurdler, got a free auto-the one the colony had bought for Governor Viscount Knollys (rhymes with Chester Bowles). The outgoing Governor, given permission by the Assembly to drive after two wartime, autoless years, had resigned before the little car arrived from England...
However, I would like to make one small correction. You say that there "is serious talk of changing Bermuda from a millionaires' retreat to a popular, popular-priced Atlantic resort for the masses." That is not correct. We are planning to have as little change in Bermuda as possible; its blue seas and coral strands will offer rest and peace to old friends and new; we visualize Bermuda as a haven of delight for war-seared souls and bodies. To crystallize this ambition, for which we are already busily working, we have adopted the phrase "BERMUDA-after...
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...Foreign Office. Dick Law has worked on U.S. newspapers, writes waltzing British prose. He is perhaps the most up & coming of young Conservatives, opposed the Chamberlain Government just before it fell, headed the British delegation to the United Nations' food conference in Virginia and the refugee conference in Bermuda...
...eight-legged desk, flanked by pictures of Robert E. Lee and Franklin Roosevelt. Upstairs is his den, lined with volumes of Texas history. The Rayburns live well: breakfasts of ham & eggs, biscuits and honey; lunches and dinners of fried chicken or steak, great slices of cold tomatoes and sliced Bermuda onions, cornbread and homemade jelly, and homemade ice cream cranked out in an old-fashioned freezer by Bobby, the colored cook. The steaks are from Rayburn cattle, straight from the frozen-food locker in Bonham...