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...sentimental editorial conference one day last week the London Times's famed Geoffrey Dawson, now 67, retired after 25 years' service, handed his editorship to his assistant, spare. 50-year-old Robert M'Gowan Barrington-Ward.* The Times marked the occasion as an important milestone in its 156-year history as one of the world's great newspapers. Likewise milestone-minded about the Times were other members of the British press -but for different reasons...
...does not completely approve of that disturbing man Churchill. Suavely the Times scolds Churchill for hogging work, instead of sharing it, for failing to pick a successor in the event that "some accident of bus or bomb should suddenly remove him from the scene." After one such editorial Editor Geoffrey Dawson was warned that it would bring down a host of complaints. "That's all right," said he. "We don't mind a few complaints...
...divorced, approved a new bylaw adopted by her International Church of the Four Square Gospel. It prohibits a divorced minister from remarrying. ∙ ∙ Oldtime Cinemactress Constance Binney, 40, revealed she had been secretly married for nearly a month to a 22-year-old flight lieutenant in the R.A.F., Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire. ∙ ∙ Philadelphia society's former Princess Ruth Pignatelli, fighting for a divorce from her second husband, Broker James C. Brazelle, denied she bought a gentleman jockey friend a $250 set of store teeth. Husband Brazelle asked "reasonable support and maintenance." ∙ ∙ Princess Olga Troubetzskoi...
...Married. Geoffrey Theodore Hellman, New Yorker writer; and Daphne Bayne Bull; she for the second time (see below); in Reno...
Anybody wanting to win a few bets from well-informed friends can probably do so by putting the following question: Within the lifetime of Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400), what was the largest independent European State? Answer: Lithuania, which stretched from the Baltic to the Black Sea, and in depth extended from the Polish border to the east of Kiev. In 1386 Lithuania's Grand Duke Jogaila married Poland's Queen Jadviga and became the Polish King...