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Died. Martin Dalton, 91, convicted of robbery and murder in 1897, who, when offered parole in 1930, toured the outside for a day, wept at the sight of cars instead of buggies, short skirts instead of bustles, and refused to leave the penitentiary; in Rhode Island State Prison, where he saw his last visitor in 1898, received his last letter...
...could read Virgil, knew Latin and the Bible thoroughly. At Eton he copped almost every prize except the Newcastle scholarship; the boy who beat him crammed so hard that all his hair fell out. No crammer, Ronald was a bit of a prankster. He particularly disliked Classmate Hugh Dalton, later Chancellor of the Exchequer. On an exam paper asking "What are the oldest parts of the book of Exodus?" Ronald altered Dalton's paper to read "oddest," and the future politico listed all of the grosser passages...
...becomes an officer in the Order of the British Empire; and Australian-born Actress Judith Anderson, 61, a U.S. resident for 42 years, who becomes a Dame Commander. Alan Lennox-Boyd, 55, the Tory's beleaguered former Colonial Secretary, was made a Companion of Honor, and Hugh Dalton, former Labor Chancellor of the Exchequer, was given a life peerage. Of special interest to the U.S.: Sir Roger Makins, from 1953 to 1956 Ambassador in Washington (Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath), and Major Cyril Berkeley Ormerod, 62, sometime professional officer, since 1945 the amiable and able...
Rich turned out to be Dalton (Johnny Got His Gun) Trumbo. one of the original "Hollywood Ten'' writers who refused to testify at the 1947 hearings on Communism in the movie industry. Said Producer Frank King, who had stoutly insisted that Robert Rich was "a young guy in Spain with a beard'': "We have an obligation to our stockholders to buy the best scripts we can. Trumbo brought us The Brave One and we bought...
With the Byrd organization's enthusiastic segregationist backing, Lindsay Almond let out all stops. Negroes, he cried, were "threatening government by N.A.A.C.P. in Virginia by the cold steel of federal bayonets, and we will have none of it." Ted Dalton, urging a system of limited integration, never really had a chance. And the dispatch of federal troops to Little Rock ruined him completely. Lindsay Almond was elected Governor of Virginia by a vote of 326,921 to 188,628-and the Byrd organization, playing fast and loose with segregationist emotions, was more firmly entrenched in power than ever...