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Officials of a British post office in Farnham, Surrey, disclosed that months have passed since their most famous old-age pensioner dropped by to collect his weekly government check (basic pension: $7). Odds were not that Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, 71, was forgetful about his stipend. Instead, with his memoirs (TIME, Nov. 3) selling handsomely (some 200,000 copies so far) and his "half pay" as an old soldier, Monty doubtless decided that the trip to the post office is no longer worthwhile: pension checks are reduced in accordance with the pensioner's outside income...
...master mariner who went to sea at 15, commanded troopships under fire in two wars (last to leave the torpedoed transport Cameronia in World War I, he grabbed the stay of a destroyer alongside as his ship sank), wrote several books about the sea (The Brassbounder, The Queerfella); in Farnham, England...
...graduate Bowdoin prizes, first place in the Humanities went to Anthony E. Farnham 3G for a study entiled "The Concept of 'Feyned Love' in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde." Larry A. Sieden-top 2G won first prize in Social Sciences with his "Jean Bodin, Sovereignty, and the State: An Essay in Iconoclasm." "The Atomic Bomb and the Surrender of Japan: The Impact of Science on Politics," by Harold Fruchtbaum 1G, took first place in the Natural Sciences division...
...loving Englishman at heart, Mike settled down in Farnham, Surrey, to run a thriving garage with his mother. Nothing could have pleased her more. Four years ago Mike's father, a onetime racing driver himself, was killed while speeding home from a racing meet. Fortnight ago Mike did consent to stand in for Donald Campbell in his try next year at the world land-speed record, but only in the event of Campbell's death. But for Mike, the perilous routine of dicing with death was over. Invited to race in the 1959 Monte Carlo rally, he snorted...
...This is the ultimate answer to a problem that has plagued dramatists since time immemorial," declared Walter B. Farnham '59, president of the Opera Guild. After seeing the projected image of the Drama Center, James E. Stinson, Jr. '59, President of the Harvard Dramatic Club, added, "We seniors are sick over the fact that we have to graduate and miss this theatre...