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...Grosvenor Calkins...
While a five-hour debate raged in Parliament, eight of the Sultans prepared to leave for London to protest in person. A ninth, the fabulous, 72-year-old ex-playboy Sultan of Johore was already there, leading the fight from a swank suite in Grosvenor House. Gone were the days when British officials used to remove him (for his own good) from Singapore nightspots at 10 p.m.; now he was telling the British where to head...
Married. Robert Browne Wallace, 27, Commerce Secretary Henry Agard Wallace's ex-Army major son, now a fledgling educational film producer (Film Publish ers, Inc.); and Gordon Grosvenor, 27, Yale Ph.D. in sociology; both for the first time; in Philadelphia...
...dingy courtroom in London's Grosvenor Square was crowded with G.I.s. On its 48th day, the trial of a prison guard from the U.S. Army's loth Reinforcement Depot at Lichfield was still a big attraction for men who remembered the planned brutalities, the beatings, the dosing with castor oil, which had made Lichfield infamous (TIME...
Other G.I.s demonstrated in Honolulu. In Paris several hundred paraded down the Champs Elysées waving magnesium flares and yelling "scab" and "slacker" at soldiers who declined to join the mob. In London 500 soldiers met in Grosvenor Square. When a sergeant bellowed: "Do you know who we got on this side [of the Atlantic]?" they roared back: "Eleanor!" A delegation marched to Claridge's Hotel, where Eleanor Roosevelt had arrived for the UNO conference, and demanded that she help them. They said she promised...