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...season, we may have the best three doubles team in the East--all on the same team," Esher said...
...from small admission fees, the National Trust completed the restoration of three beautiful historic gardens: Ham House, an 18-acre compound on the banks of the Thames on the outskirts of London; Erd-dig, a 13-acre retreat in North Wales; and Claremont, a 50-acre spread near Esher, 40 minutes from Charing Cross...
...Sussex country ("Leonard caught two moles this morning"). Deeper feelings blurt through only in a sentence here and there ("Nothing except painting and writing is really interesting nothing can be quite so important as child bearing"). Such revelations are surrounded like desert islands by a sea of gossip: "Lord Esher has forbidden Brett to live with Gertler . . . Fame has come to me with her arms full: Lady Colefax has invited me to tea ... There's Kitty Maxse falling over the bannister and killing herself...
...British sports-car manufacturer, the first to fit high-performance U.S. engines to rugged, road-holding British bodies, turning out a succession of highly prized Cadillac-Allards, Chrysler-Allards and Ford-Allards (in which he won the grueling 3,300-km. Monte Carlo Rally in 1952); of cancer; in Esher, England...
...censorship prevent Chicago Daily Newsman Beech from getting out the week's most sensational story from Tokyo. He cabled that "authoritative sources" had told him that General MacArthur had recommended to Washington that the U.S. withdraw from Korea. When Beech first showed the story to Colonel Esher C. Burkart, chief of MacArthur's press "advisory" division, Colonel Burkart tore up the first two pages. Then Beech took another copy to Colonel Echols who, after suggesting a few qualifying changes, approved it. But when the story got a front-page play in many U.S. papers, Colonel Echols flatly branded...