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...argument can change the elderly Englishman's probably accurate belief that his country and his world suffered an irremediable loss in "The War"-meaning, of course, World War I. The nature of that loss is defined in The Home Letters...
Only a Beginning. Luckily for the pilot, Squadron Leader Douglas Robert Steuart Bader, R.A.F., it was an artificial leg. He parachuted to German-occupied France, losing his freedom but not his life. Bader is a square-jawed Englishman with a remarkable past and an even more remarkable spirit. He was only 21 when, in 1931, he suffered his first and most serious accident as an R.A.F. pilot officer. His right leg had to be amputated at the thigh, his left leg below the knee. For many it would have seemed an end. For Douglas Bader, it was only a beginning...
...Martinis at 1, and capped them with "a bounteous lunch" at 1:30, drank cocktails or sherry from 5 until dinner at 8, "lots of champagne at dinner," then brandy, and worked until 3 or 4 a.m. Wrote Columnist McCormick: "The colonel is a fair trencherman himself, but the Englishman's capacity amazed...
This is a year of firsts. Everest was climbed, then an Englishman ran a four minute mile. The odd Ibis-crowned building at the intersection of Bow and Mt. Auburn Streets has been scaled innumerable times by men, but yesterday noon the first woman conqueror of the Lampoon Building, Adrienne L. deChetelat '46, posed for photographs in front of the well-traveled Ibis, which incidentally seems to be facing the CRIMSON Building again...
Burrell, a native Englishman, is known primarily for his work during the war, when he was one of the three co-directors of the Old Vic. His associates as leaders of the Vic, which is the equivalent of a British national theater, were Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier...