Word: halifax
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...Felix was born of humble shepherd stock in Megalopolis, Greece. At eight he ran away to Athens to sell papers; by nineteen he had saved sufficient money to join the great immigration wave to America and to make sightseeing stopovers along the way at Marseilles, Paris, London, Liverpool, and Halifax. Reaching Boston with one lone dollar to his name, he first worked in a friend's establishment on Essex Street and after a brief stint on his own in the Hub made the move to Cambridge. He had never enjoyed an education of his own so basking in the erudition...
Married. The Hon. Richard Frederick Wood, 26, son of the Earl of Halifax, Britain's wartime Ambassador to the U.S.; and Diana Kellett, 20; in London. During the British Eighth Army's North African campaign, the bridegroom lost both legs...
...Britain could not carry this burden had been apparent for months to some Americans and some Britons. A little over a year ago the late Lord Keynes had lashed out at "Foreign Office frivolities," i.e., political commitments that Britain could no longer afford (TIME, Feb. 3). Last week Lord Halifax, speaking to the House of Lords on India (see FOREIGN NEWS), summed it up in a way that applied to many other British-dominated areas. Said he: "The British Government ... is in the most distasteful position ... in which its responsibility is greater than its power...
...their own. They reported that there were 1,000 soldiers, civilians and their wives (including 130 Americans) at Churchill on the bleak western shore of Hudson Bay. Artillery, machine guns, snowmobiles and winter clothing are being tested there. So are a few planes - DC-35, Mosquitoes, and a Halifax. Jet-propelled planes? Said McNaughton:'"There is nothing of that sort up there. . . . There is not a thing we are the least anxious about. I'm afraid if anyone is expecting something like rockets capable of reaching the moon, he will be disappointed...
About the only interested party who refrained from writing the newspapers was Sculptor Dick. Last week Sir William, who has modeled the King and Queen, Queen Mary, Churchill and Halifax without raising anybody's hackles, implied that it was all a matter of artistic license, good-naturedly explained that "a sitting figure of Roosevelt would be all wrong in the general arrangement. It would look squat and dumpy alongside the tall trees that will surround...