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...bits and pieces of his own have cropped up in his joyous string of novels. Gulley Jimson, the rascally painter of The Horse's Mouth, bore the knowing brush strokes of Gary's three-year try at being an artist in turn-of-the-century Paris and Edinburgh. In Mr. Johnson, still the best novel written about modern Africa, Gary drew on his tours of duty as an officer in British West Africa during and after World War I. In A House of Children, written in 1941 and now published in the U.S. for the first time, Novelist...
...awarded the title Agga Maha Thray Sithu, meaning Very High Big Honorable Officer of the King. Similarly honored was another servant of Empire: Britain's onetime Laborite Colonial Undersecretary, Lord Ogmore. And just to show who was who's beloved brother, the Burmese gave the Duke of Edinburgh's uncle, Earl Mountbatten, last Viceroy of India, the highest title of all: Agga Maha Thiri Thu Dhamma, or Very High Big Honorable Follower of the Righteous Path...
Education: Fettes College in Edinburgh (a top-rated public school) and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he studied law, took honors in classics and history, and became president of the university debating society. Named a Liberal candidate for Parliament when still a student, but in 1929, switched to the Tories...
Many of you remember an earlier letter (June 9, 1952) about Alex Campbell, the Edinburgh newsman who went off to South Africa and eventually (in 1951) became our Johannesburg correspondent. Since then, Alex has written his sixth book: The Heart of Africa. He also won Sigma Delta Chi's Foreign Correspondence...
...small family dinner in Windsor Castle, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh, fresh from a hunting expedition in Bedfordshire, celebrated their eighth wedding anniversary...