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Replied the First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. Alfred Duff Cooper: "Let us remember that late in the World War we did everything in our power to starve the women and children in Germany! . . . Those [Leftist food] ships, every one of them, are performing invaluable services to the Spanish [Leftist] Government. . . . Can they really expect that the British Navy will see them safe into harbor...
...world's youngest minister." In a year Charles Jaynes Jr. has become heavier (weight 69 lb.), has substituted a brushed-back bob for the Dutch bangs of his pre-ministerial days. Under the tutelage of his middle-aged nurse and nose-wiper, Neva Duff, he has learned to read from the Bible, study third-grade subjects. But he still sermonizes by rote, had to be coached by Nurse Duff in his ordination sermon. Cocky, pounding fist on fist to emphasize his points, he shrilled: "I want to assure you there is a Hell, and it's a place...
...installed for General Franco a semicircle of heavy howitzers on Spanish soil commanding Britain's Gibraltar. When Labor M.P.s got to pressing His Majesty's Government uncomfortably, one of the most remarkable diversions in Parliamentary history was created by new First Lord of the Admiralty Alfred Duff Cooper who drawled: "It may interest the House to know that a British ship was captured [by the Rightists] while attempting to enter Santander this morning." At this the Conservative M.P.s who formed Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's majority raised shouts of laughter, and only the impotent Laborites...
...apple-cheeked youth 40 years ago, immaculate Thomas Duff Pattullo, now Premier of British Columbia, visited the hell-roaring gold-rush town of Dawson, Yukon as secretary to the Canadian Government's first. Yukon Commission. Tough miners and hot-spot sirens goggled at his white trousers, the first ever seen so far north. From that moment romantic Yukon wove a spell around...
Malloy and Frank (M) d. Lowman and Bauck 9-7, 6-2; Gillespie and Hardie (M) d. Dorson and Fuld 6-4, 6-4; Duff and Hendrix d. Brown and Malone...