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Temperamentally, Harry Luce was TIME'S lightning; Brit Hadden its thunder. Young Editor Hadden, black-haired, bushy-browed and so nervous that he never sat still, always scowled at copy, generally from beneath a green eyeshade. Vexed by a stupid blunder* he would growl out loud, sometimes stamp his feet. Pleased by an apt phrase, he would vent a guffaw that apprised TIME'S writers that a new phrase had been canonized in TIME style. Disdainful of "gumchewers," he always chewed gum. Contemptuous of dead literature, he constantly held up Homer† as an example to TIME...
...Ostrers then went John Maxwell, chairman & managing director of the No. 2 British cinema company, Associated Brit ish Picture Corp., Ltd. Thickly set, be spectacled, abrupt, Cineman Maxwell has been plodding along in the wake of the volatile Ostrers for years, making less brilliant cinemas but more impressive balance sheets...
Finally Britain's Wartime Prime Minis ter beat his chest with doubled fist and roared: "A few months ago 50 nations trusted Britain. The nations now will never trust this crowd! [gesturing at the Cabinet]. Tonight we have listened to a cowardly surrender and there on the Brit ish Government front bench are the cow ards...
...Grey, 12th Earl of Kent, was made a Duke in 1710, died with the title 30 years later. Bulbous, misguided George III revived the title for his fourth son, cantankerous Edward Augustus, in 1799. Edward of Kent was one of the worst tempered men who ever lived. As a Brit ish officer he did his blundering best to squash the Yankee farmers in the American Revolution. For his efforts he was finally raised to the rank of a Field Marshal. His fondness for having soldiers flogged at cannon wheels or blown from the muzzle of guns, and later his refusal...
Malcom Hayden Hebb, of Vancouver, B. C., Canada, to be Assistant in Physics. A.B. Univ. of Brit. Col., 1931; 1931-34 at Univ...