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DIED. Frank Swinnerton, 98, novelist, belletrist and chronicler of English literary life for 70 years; in Cranleigh, Surrey, England. Born outside Victorian London, Swinnerton turned out 62 uneven but cheerfully unpretentious books. His intricately plotted, somewhat Victorian novels included Nocturne (1917) and Death of a Highbrow (1961), a book that he and his critics regarded as his best. The agreeable Swinnerton had a gift for making extraordinary friends (among them H.G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, G.B. Shaw and Aldous Huxley), whose lives he recounted in several spirited but gentlemanly memoirs...
...Councillor Vernon Gould! One complete bedroom set from Canada! Two additional beds! Three engineering apprenticeships donated by the Greater Manchester Council! Western boots for Charles, Western chaps for Diana, both from Texas and both from Anne Arm strong, the former American ambassador! A herb garden for Highgrove from the Cranleigh Group of Women's Institutes in Surrey! A lace cushion from the Royal School of Needlework! Two cases of specially blended 'C and D' malt whisky from Macallans Distillery! And - wait until you ladies see this - from Geba, in Germany, kitchen furnishings for every culinary pursuit...
...togged out in pullover, batter's gloves and pads, British Cinemactress Jean ("Ophelia") Simmons struck a pose while waiting her turn at bat in the contest of Pinewood Film Studio v. the Cranleigh School. Cricketer Simmons scored 14 runs, helped Pinewood win by three wickets...
Died. Reginald K. Pierson, 56, chief aircraft designer for Vickers Armstrongs, Ltd., creator of the Wellington bomber, one of Britain's few offensive weapons early in World War II; after long illness; in Cranleigh, Surrey, England...
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