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...LOUISA BOYD GILE...
...throw ?250,000 (then about $1,000,000) into the Mediterranean Sea one day in 1940. A few moments later, the R.A.F. payroll plane in which he was a passenger crashed in Sicily, and Leeming was made prisoner along with the late Air Marshal Owen Tudor Boyd...
...gives the main credit for his gracious treatment to the superb natural manners of the Italian people, who, says Leeming, liked the British almost as much as they disliked the Germans. The first action of the Italians was to give a small banquet in honor of their prisoners. Boyd and Leeming were then installed in a large mansion in Catania. Distressed by their bad luck in being captured, the commanding general took them for an occasional cheering spin through the vicinity in his car. At their next place of detention, a villa near Sulmona, they were allowed to stroll...
Guard the Clothes. Boyd and Leeming were soon joined by several tons of British brass (including Lieut. General Philip Neame and Major General Adrian Carton de Wiart). As the war went on, discipline was formalized-by Italian standards. For example, since none of the Italian garrison knew how to assemble a new machine gun, the British prisoners were asked to assist; the British obliged, thoughtfully omitting to install several vital parts. When the captives were taken on a picnic, the Italian officers and guards joined them for a swim, leaving a British general on shore to guard the clothes...
...Mariemont, Ohio one day last week, Mayor E. Boyd Jordan mounted the 100-ft. tower of the town carillon and entered the tiny clavier room. He loosened his collar and tie, rolled up his sleeves. He rubbed his arms and hands with alcohol, fastened leather guards over his hands, sat down at the keyboard and started pummeling its projecting levers, stamping on its pedals. Above him in the belfry, 23 tuned bells chimed out a program of folk tunes, hymns, a classical number or two. The annual congress of the Guild of Carillonneurs of North America was in town...