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Divorced. Lord Burghley, 41, sports-loving heir to the Marquess of Exeter, winner of the 400-meter hurdles at the 1928 Olympics, who went out to Bermuda to become its youngest governor (1943-45); by Lady Mary Theresa Burghley, 42, sister of the Duchess of Gloucester; after 17 years of marriage, three children; in London...
...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...
...sprinted around the "Great Court" of Trinity College (374⅔ yds.) before Trinity's clock finished chiming the hour. Next year at Amsterdam he won the Olympic 400-meter hurdles. Prewar voyagers on the Queen Mary could view a brass plate on the promenade deck recording Lord Burghley's dash around the quarter-mile deck in full evening dress-time: 58 sec. In 1931 he stood as a Conservative, was elected to the House of Commons. In 1932 he went to Los Angeles as captain of the British Olympic Track Team...
...continue my career as a hurdler." In 1935 he was re-elected to Parliament, became a Baldwin 30 and Chamberlain man. In 1938, supporting Munich, he said: Britain should be "big enough to be above a mud-slinging match." In Bermuda nighttime Hamilton will be a sight for Lord Burghley to see. Its blacked-out, coral streets are packed with residents, visitors, soldiers. & sailors on shore leave. There is practically no civilian automobile traffic, and crowds too big for the sidewalks mill into the streets. Hotspots serve weak drinks at stiff prices...
...Governor, Lord Burghley will have to do some social thinking for Bermuda's peace: when the war ends and the garrisons are reduced, Bermuda's golden stream will dry up. Negro workers now making about $3 a day will worry about unemployment. Bermuda's ruling merchants are already planning cushioning measures to carry them from wartime boom to peacetime security. There is serious talk of changing Bermuda from a millionaires' retreat to a popular, popular-priced Atlantic resort for the masses...