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...Telephone Tycoon Colonel Sosthenes Behn was still with his battered building, although the U. S. and British embassies had long since been officially evacuated, and last week were scarred by air bomb splinters. Splinters lodged in the heads of a left-behind British military attache and an Englishwoman but neither was seriously hurt...
...Rumanian Royal Palace at Bucharest: Dowager Queen Marie: "I know what the Empire means, for remember, I was an Englishwoman. . . . The King will do the right thing, for he is an Englishman...
...price ($309,000) set for the school was characteristically precise, for nothing about Rosemary Hall has ever been too small to escape Founder Ruutz-Rees's attention. She was a blue-eyed, ambitious young Englishwoman of 23 when she founded the school in Wallingford, Conn, in 1890. It was named after Judge William Gardner Choate's nearby Rosemary Farm (now the site of Choate School for boys). Ten years after she moved it to Greenwich in 1900 began her association with another Englishwoman, small Mary Elizabeth Lowndes, who last week remained as co-headmistress. The first Greenwich plant...
SUMMER WILL SHOW-Sylvia Townsend Warner-Viking ($2.50). Wordy, but rarely dull, Author Warner turns to French political history, presenting an ambitious character study of a strongwilled, wealthy young Englishwoman who, captivated by her faithless husband's ex-mistress, casts off fortune, respectability; donates her services to the underground revolutionists; in time's nick escapes being shot for participating in the abortive Parisian insurrection...
Rumors of their relationship preceded them. When they stopped in Dresden, an Englishwoman there wrote: "Lord Nelson thinks of nothing but Lady Hamilton, who is totally occupied by the same object. She is bold, forward, coarse, assuming and vain. Her figure is colossal, but, excepting her feet, which are hideous, well-shaped. Her bones are large and she is exceedingly embonpoint." In England the mob shouted hoarse applause but society whispered. Nelson was heaped with formal honors and financial rewards, but he and Emma were received nowhere. Nelson's wife formally left him. Before old Sir William died, with...