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...spoiled that venture and cost some 9,000 casualties, but the man mostly blamed was Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, then as now First Lord of the Admiralty. Turkish and Allied troops, now fraternizing in the Near East, observed the occasion last week by exchanging salutations, especially Major General Bernard Cyril Freyberg, chief of the Anzac Command,* and Marshal Fervi Cakmak, Chief of the Turkish General Staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Another Gallipoli | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

Found caddying for a living on Miami Beach's municipal golf course was Cyril Walker, onetime U. S. Open champion, who in Detroit in 1924 beat Bobby Jones for the title. Forty-eight, reduced to 107 pounds by illness, he hasn't golfed for four years, thinks he would have trouble breaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 22, 1940 | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

Born. To Prince Louis Ferdinand, grandson of former Kaiser Wilhelm II, and the former Grand Duchess Kira of Russia, daughter of the late Pretender Cyril: their second son; in Berlin. They honeymooned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 1, 1940 | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...morning papers announced that Sir Cyril Norwood, ex-head of Har row (now president of St. John's College, Oxford), had predicted that the war would wipe out Great Britain's public (English for private) schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: First Major Casualty | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...public schools," said Sir Cyril in a speech to Royal Air Force officers in France, "have done their job, and produced their leaders, but after the war it will be found that their day is done." Reason: war taxes will be so heavy that few parents will be able to pay $800 a year for a boy's education. Only way to save such schools as Eton and Harrow, said Sir Cyril, will be for the Government to fill them with scholarship students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: First Major Casualty | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

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