Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tailors sedulously cut their patterns after the models of Bond Street. Even more slavishly does Fleet Street ape the pattern of U. S. journalism.. Last week on British news stalls were displayed not one but two new magazines, frankly plagiarizing TIME...
...first issue was caught between two reigns, thus requiring an eight page take-out on the death of George V, the ascension of Edward VIII. Alan Cameron is not only Cavalcade's editor but half its staff. The other half is Publisher William James Brittain, a rising Fleet Streeter who was once assistant editor of Lord Beaverbrook's blatant Sunday Express. Impartial observers thought that on merit Brittain's Cavalcade would outlast Korda's News Review. But Publisher Korda was confident that he would be publishing both sheets within three months...
POWER - Edwin A. Falk - Longmans, Green ($4). When Wallace Irwin wrote his popular Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy in 1907 he called his hero Hashimura Togo-a name obliquely familiar to most U. S. newspaper readers. But when Count Togo Heihachiro, onetime Admiral of the Imperial Fleet, died in 1934, only Japanese schoolboys still remembered the details of his famed victories. Last week Biographer Falk, himself a onetime sea dog, paid Admiral Togo's career the meticulous sympathy of one naval officer for another. Author Falk never attempted to penetrate through the uniform, but his comprehensive account of modern...
...Sweden, the Russians annoyed England by firing on British trawlers in the North Sea, thinking they were the enemy. By the time the Baltic Fleet had limped through the Straits of Malacca they were in sorry shape. Togo had had plenty of time to get ready; his ships were overhauled, his men like fighting cocks. As he lay in wait, he knew the coming battle of Tsushima (he had even picked the place) would be the decisive contest of the war. It was the greatest naval fight since Trafalgar, greatest until Jutland. Turning the Russian fleet from their one chance...
That His Majesty remains personally fit & fleet. King Edward showed by donning shorts in which he ran last week from Fort Belvedere three miles to Windsor Lodge. Most dignified and well received was the King's first message to Parliament, read by the Comptroller of His Majesty's Household, thrifty Sir George Penny...