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Engaged. The Hon. Richard Frederick Wood, 26, alert, active (despite the loss of both legs in the fighting in North Africa) younger son of the Earl of Halifax, former British Ambassador to the U.S.; and Diana Kellett, 19, daughter of the late Lieut. Colonel Edward O. Kellett, M.P.; in London...
...Earl of Halifax, who often talked of turning farmer after he was through being Ambassador to the U.S., was getting closer to the earth. The towering lord of Hickleton Hall in Yorkshire was moved by servant trouble and householder's headache to sell the hulking heap, plus a few of his many lordly acres, to an Anglican sisterhood (Order of the Holy Paraclete). The sisters planned to use it for a school building, and m'lord planned to move into the stable...
Lord Inverchapel, successor to Halifax, got close to the earth in Iowa. A farm boy who had met him in Washington invited him out home some time; the Ambassador took him up on it. For three days he bunked (in the downstairs bedroom) at a farm outside Eagle Grove, rode tractors, weeded strawberries, fed on meat and potatoes and vegetables and pie, dried the dishes. After he left for Washington, the Eagle Grove Eagle came out with the first extra in its history, ran six pictures of him in four pages...
While the Prime Minister's ship ploughed toward Halifax, more halfhearted union-Government talks were held. But nothing came of them. The steel union still demanded 15?-an-hour wage increases, the Government insisted that 10? was the limit. (Out in British Columbia the Government regional labor board was granting 13?, 15? and even 18? increases right & left...
From Victoria to Halifax the tourists-from-the-U.S. business looked better than even the brightest presummer estimates. British Columbia officials guessed that by time things got back to normal it would have picked up 30 million U.S. dollars...