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...Horse Guards parade ground. Later, the Queen proclaimed the fifth honors list of her reign. Among the 2,500 British and Commonwealth citizens on the roster: old (80) Author Somerset Maugham, who joined the exclusive ranks (limit: 50 members) of the Companions of Honor; sharp-tongued Poetess Edith (Facade) Sitwell, 66, now a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire; solid Sir Gladwyn Jebb, 54, now Britain's Ambassador to France after four years as Britain's chief delegate to the U.N., a big enough man to bear the ponderous title of Knight Grand Cross...
...Vogue"). "With men who know rococo best," says one of his more cynical American admirers, "it's Tynan two to one." He has an unerring eye for the sorest point, whether it be an actress' weight or her unpleasing hands. After seeing Britain's venerated Dame Edith Evans play Shakespeare's Cleopatra, he wrote: "Bereft of fan, lace and sedan chair, Dame Edith is nakedly middle-aged and plain...
...Critical Ridge. In the verbal free-for-all that inevitably followed this first darting rabbit punch, Edith more than proved her talent for infighting, and soon attracted the attention of an important matchmaker. Last December London's learned and respected lawyers' debating club, the Hardwicke Society, invited Dr. Summerskill to come and stage a few fast rounds of debate at the Inner Temple with Britain's big fight promoter Jack ("Mr. Boxing") Solomons. The proposition : "That this house wishes professional boxing to be banned...
...Edith (weighing in at an estimated 150 Ibs.) came out swinging a white skull which she had just taken from a cardboard box. On it she indicated what she called "the sphenoidal ridge." When a head is punched, she went on to explain, the brain is knocked against this ridge, and punch-drunkenness results. Sixty percent of all fighters, said Dr. Summerskill, end by becoming permanently punch-drunk. Beefy
Promoter Solomons (196 Ibs.) countered with a fast one-two. "I challenge these figures," he said. "Gene Tunney was so punch-drunk that he married ?8,000,000, and Jack Dempsey proposed to a woman worth 35 millions. I wish I was as punch-drunk . . ." The decision went to Edith, but Jack came out of the ring determined to get a return match...