Word: durban
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peter's School, Broadstairs, he got only four shillings a week pocket money. He managed all right by selling his schoolmates his mail from home. First as midshipman, later as Lieut. Windsor, he served eight years in the Royal Navy. When one of his ships, H.M.S. Durban, put into San Diego, Calif. and Lieut. Windsor frolicked for two unauthorized days with Lili Damita and her film friends, he atoned for the next 30 days, confined to his cabin. His health, never so vigorous as his spirit, waned in the Navy and in 1929, when he was 26, he left...
...Forbes's early interviews was with a member of the Japanese Imperial Family. The place: a hotel bathroom in Durban, S. Africa, with His Highness...