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...This Our Life (Warner) is billed as a cineversion of Ellen Glasgow's novel about an ineffectual Southern aristocrat who has lost his money but not his manners. Picture and book have only one thing in common: the title. The film's story is much more like The Little Foxes...
...fires on the edge of Tokyo, third largest city of the world (pop. 6,581,000). They saw it in bomb wreckage in Tokyo's famed port of Yokohama, in their great airplane-manufacturing center at Nagoya (pop. 1,249,000), in Kobe (pop. 1,006,000), the Glasgow of Japan. They saw it in the flames from incendiaries that licked through the jerry-built, paper-structure houses where Japan's little men live...
...Football (soccer) matches-British equivalent in draw of U.S. professional baseball-are still well attended, but the Home Office restricts attendance to half the ground capacity on account of possible air raids. This season's biggest match, England v. Scotland, will be played on April 18 at Glasgow, where the grounds can hold 150,000. Last week the firemen of Bolton, Lancashire caused a minor scandal when they borrowed the National Fire Service tender to make a 278-mile round trip for a soccer game with the firemen of Dumfries, Scotland...
...single opposition vote was cast by lank-haired, intense James Maxton, one of Parliament's three ultra-left Independent Laborites who represent Glasgow's shipyard workers.* More important, 67 of those present did not vote at all. And as far as a large part of Parliament was concerned, the vote was not wholehearted; it just seemed necessary. Afterward Winston Churchill's many critics went right on criticizing...
...seventh son of a seventh son, Cosmo Lang was born a Presbyterian. In fact, his father was Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland-as his brother became in 1935. After winning his M.A. from Glasgow University at 18, he had a brilliant career at Oxford, topped in 1886 with a first class in Modern History and the presidency of the famed Oxford Union (which York held in due course, too). In tending a political career, he studied law in London for the next three years, did not decide to enter the church until just before...