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...lucky author is Mrs. Elizabeth Metzger Howard, 45, wife of a British-born mining engineer. Her novel Before the Sun Goes Down, a story of a Pennsylvania town in the 1880s, will be published early next year-as the winner of both the $20,000 Doubleday, Doran Novel Contest and the $125,000 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Annual Novel Award. The $145,000 is not the end of Mrs. Howard's windfall. M.G.M. will pay her up to $50,000 more if her book becomes a best-seller -and may offer her a writing contract to boot...
...included the onetime director of the grim Italian campaign (and of the U.S. Eighth Army). Some, particularly French Canadians, wanted to break with tradition and have a Canadian named for the job. They thought that Canada's sovereignty would thus be more clearly demonstrated. Some of the British-born appointees, they thought, had been oppressively overstuffed. Others, particularly the more Anglophile Canadians, felt that another of royal blood should succeed Athlone, who is King George VI's uncle. Such a selection would not weaken the link with the British Crown...
...Bertram Campbell, 50, a British-born onetime customers man, then a truck salesman earning about $4,000 a year. He lived quietly and comfortably with his second wife and their two sons and daughter in suburban Freeport...
There was no money in the bank when Alexander Humphreys Woollcott was born (January 1887). Roving, British-born Father Woollcott was an eccentric parent ; he played cards suspiciously well, became a natty secretary to the Kansas City Light & Coke Co., once went to bed for two years (he was tired), and spent his last years in an institution. His mother's fam ily were among the remnants of a once-flourishing, 19th-Century Utopian colony who lived in a rambling, 85-room house near Red Bank, N.J. Father Woollcott visited his wife, said "his disgruntled in-laws, "chiefly...
...Princeton student fell into a chance conversation with a stranger on a trolley. The stranger was a missionary, and what he had to say persuaded the student to go to India for a few months' work among the Untouchables. Last week, after 41 years in India, big, burly, British-born Sam Higginbottom, 70, left his "temporary" job and came back to the U.S. for good...