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...Marshal Arthur William Tedder, R.A.F. Middle East Commander, and Major General Bernard Cyril Freyberg, commanding New Zealand forces-Knight Commander of the Bath...
...family out of a danger zone 200 miles away; it was a wet, cold, angry evening. At an emergency underground studio arrived Expert No. 1: wild-haired Professor Julian Huxley, fresh from the Zoo, where he had been seeing to the safety of tigers. Expert No. 2, Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, clumped in on loud-nailed boots, carrying a vast haversack. Expert No. 3, Commander Archibald Bruce Campbell (retired), glared red-faced at his high-brow colleagues. The first question, propounded by elegant Humorist William Donald McCullough, was "What are the Seven Wonders of the World?" Nobody knew...
...struggled on," said McCullough afterward, "in a series of furious silences. ..." But Any Questions? soon began to zoom into popularity. People liked salty Commander Campbell (" 'e's not so dumb, 'e's just got common sense instead of heducation."). They liked goat-bearded Cyril Joad because he could and would talk beautifully about anything. They liked Huxley for his precise knowledge (after a brilliant disquisition by Joad on "What is Love?" Scientist Huxley gave a direct biological answer...
...Heavy, surly-faced Grand Duke Vladimir, 23, who gets a large part of his exercise as pretender to the Romanov throne. A first cousin once removed of the late Tsar, he is the son of the late, sumptuously-mustached Grand Duke Cyril, who in 1924 proclaimed himself "Tsar of all the Russias" and died in 1938. Grand Duke Vladimir's mother was a German Princess of Saxe-Coburg. He was born in Finland, where his parents had fled to escape the Red terror, attended London University, is now supposedly in Paris, where he has long been considered an admirer...
Synthetic photosynthesis. Another attack on this problem is described in a recent book, Photosynthesis (Van Nostrand; $4.75), by Edward Charles Cyril Baly, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of Liverpool...