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...backs and bunions of U.S. postmen ached more than usual last week. The Book-of-the-Month Club was sending out its March selections: William Saroyan's warmhearted The Human Comedy (TIME, March 1), Berry Fleming's ladylike Colonel Effingham's Raid. Mail carriers have long been used to the load dumped on them by the U.S. Post Office's fourth largest customer,* but last week's was the greatest fardel of them all-342,000 copies of The Human Comedy alone. Crowed The Book-of-the-Month Club: "The largest advance printing...
Lady Howard of Effingham, who was born in Hungary and spent most of her youth in Budapest, was suddenly "detained" by Scotland Yard under the Defense of the Realm Act. Britons were relieved to know that her blue-blooded husband, Lord Howard of Effingham, has long been separated from...
...watch fires burned on its cliffs when the world's greatest fleet approached bearing the flower of Spain's Army. That great Armada was worsted in fierce fighting with Effingham's Fleet and practically destroyed by a storm in the North Sea. In 1759 Louis XV's Army waited in Brittany for Admiral Conflans to break the British blockade of Brest, abandoned its plan to invade Britain when Admiral Sir Edward Hawke dispersed the French Fleet at Quiberon Bay. Again in the winter of 1804-05 Napoleon gathered a host of 150,000 men across...
...fifth time in 352 years, Britain's Royal Navy set forth last week to meet a major challenge to Britannia's rule of the waves. Under Effingham in 1588, Britain acquired that rule by beating the Armada of Spain in the English Channel. The French Navy of Louis XIV was vanquished at La Hogue (1692). Since then four other masters of bulging European powers have forced a showdown on that rule. Under Nelson at Aboukir Bay in 1798 and at Trafalgar in 1805 Britain's fleet crushed Napoleon's dream of making France an overseas power...
...lonely outposts at Effingham, Ill. and Sexton Summit, Ore., in the busy, bright-lighted teletype room at Newark Airport, in hundreds of other stations along the Civil Aeronautics Authority's 30,000-mile wire circuit, the machines broke off their cabalistic sequence of weather symbols one morning last week...