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Fearful lest it should leave behind in its dilapidated quarters some of its impeccable character, the Times pondered long before moving, chose a site little farther away than its staid Editor Geoffrey Dawson could throw a handful of type. Its new six-floor 18th-Century style building did not startle the antiquated Blackfriars neighborhood, for the fagade is of dull Portland stone and weathered hand-made tawny-brown bricks, each chosen with fond care and joined, as the Times said, with "a sympathetic mortar." Lest the 152-year-old Times lose some of its hoary atmosphere, a new rubber-floored...
This powerful force the legendary Geoffrey Dawson shares with Major the Hon. John Jacob Astor, principal stockholder in the Times Holding Company Ltd. which controls the profitable paper, and John Walter, fifth generation descendant of the Times's founder. Shareholder Astor of the English branch of the Astor family, bought the holdings of the late Viscount Northcliffe 15 years ago. To insure that no unworthy shall gain control of the Times, no transfer of common shares by a living holder to anyone except Owners Astor and Walter can be made without approval from an austere committee whose members...
...charity will go an unnamed sum received by the Duke of Windsor in settlement of the libel suit he had brought against Publisher William Heinemann and Author Geoffrey Dennis, whose Coronation Commentary, the Duke's attorney said, had "repeated the rumor that the lady who is now the plaintiff's wife occupied before his marriage to her the position of his mistress." Announcing settlement of the suit, Baron Hewart, Lord Chief Justice of England, suggested that the Duke might "almost" be justified in laying upon Author Dennis a "thoroughly efficacious horsewhip...
Against Amherst a third team composed of Edwin C. Hoyt, Jr. '38, and J. Geoffrey Levin '39 successfully upheld the proposition: "That the Neutrality Act should be immediately applied in the Sino-Japanese situation." On the preceding evening this same pair lost the decision on the identical subject to the Williams debaters at Williamstown...
...Providence tonight William W. Hancock '38 and Richard W. Sullivan '38 defend the National Administration's foreign policy, while at Williamstown Edwin C. Hoyt, Jr. '38 and J. Geoffrey Levin '39 urge application of the Neutrality...