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...often, in the first decade after Scott, Editor William Percival Crozier rested on the paper's proud and withering laurels. C.P.S. and the brilliant C. E. Montague, his son-in-law and chief leader writer, had built the Guardian's reputation the hard way. They had fought against the Boer War, and fought for Home Rule for Ireland, when it was all but suicidal for a paper...
...half years ago, on Crozier's death, a firmer hand took the helm. Short, bristle-haired Alfred P. Wadsworth, 55, had joined the staff in 1917, covered the Irish "trouble" when Scott was exposing and flaying the misdeeds of the British...
This year in Addlestone, Surrey, St. Mary of the Angels' Song School continued the ancient tradition by having schoolboy Dennis McMichael of Birmingham "consecrated" in full panoply-mitre, crozier, and ring (see cut). Addlestone's 1945 boy bishop has no church duties, officiates in leading deputations of other boys to visit the sick, sing carols...
...fought as hard as any pilot to tame the brand-new and radically different Superfortresses. Gradually, sometimes by means mystifying to zealous ground crews, the bugs began to come out. Sample exterminations: ¶ The B-29's big engines were exploding when they caught fire. Dr. William J. Crozier, a Harvard physiologist, suspected that the magnesium-alloy parts blew up when they were doused by the carbon dioxide in the automatic fire extinguishers. Tests proved him right, and combat crews were immediately instructed to use their extinguishers at the first slight hint of fire, or not at all. Later...
Died. Major General William Crozier (ret.), 87, longtime chief of Army Ordnance (1901-18); in Washington. Made chief of Army Ordnance by Roosevelt I, he helped design the Buffington-Crozier disappearing gun carriage of the U.S. coast defense's-heavy artillery...