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...late twenties, Shepard served as head basketball and football coach at Guildford College and at Randolph-Macon. He became basketball and assistant football coach at Davidson College in 1936, but after several years he dropped his football position to become athletic director. During the war he coached an informal varsity eleven at Davidson...
...married a curly-haired English girl, installed her in a red brick villa on Guildford's Weyside Road, led her to think he was still in service and had a snap desk job. To make it look real, he left home every day at 8:30 a.m., returned at 4:30 p.m. He regularly promoted himself-to corporal, to sergeant, to sergeant major...
Adrien Demers enlisted in May, 1940, was shipped to a Canadian camp near Guildford, England. He went AWOL at Christmas time, he said, because a guardroom sergeant made his life miserable. Then, for four years and eight months, right under the noses of the Canadian Army, he lived an unsoldierly life of Riley...
Through the quiet years Secretary Stevenson had faithfully stuck to her job. Not until last week did she take a new one: in a private ceremony at the register's office in Guildford, David Lloyd George and Frances Stevenson were married...
...odious Duke of Northumberland, plotting to transfer the royal crown of England from a Tudor to a Dudley brow, cared nothing for charm or scholarship. He dragged Lady Jane from her bower, gave her in marriage to his son, Guildford Dudley, and confounded for the nonce all other aspirants for the throne. Lady Jane swooned prettily when she heard that the Council in its pliancy had named her Queen of England. Meanwhile London could hear the rumbling of the distant drum, as the Eastern counties rose for Tudor Mary, and Catholic troops moved towards the metropolis. While Ridley harangued...