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Parentage: Born Jan. 9, 1913, in Yorba Linda, Calif., a small (present pop. 885), citrus-growing town near Los Angeles, to Frank (Scotch-Irish ancestry) and Hannah Milhous Nixon (Irish-English), who migrated from the Middle West to California in their youth, married in 1908, are still hale & hearty. Father worked as streetcar motorman, oilfield worker, rancher, built filling station at Whittier, Calif., later added a grocery store, now known as Nixon's Market and run by Dick's younger brother...
...very morning when Maher was to meet Britain's Ambassador Sir Ralph Stevenson to begin talks on settlement of the Anglo-Egyptian dispute, the Briton developed a sudden "chill" and sent his regrets to Maher by messenger. On medical grounds the chill was somewhat inexplicable, since Sir Ralph, hale & hearty, had been seen playing a rousing game of cricket only the day before. On diplomatic grounds it was easily explained: King Farouk himself had asked the Briton to call off the talks, since he was about to sack the Premier. Maher called a hasty meeting of the cabinet...
...stunned silence. "I've never seen Piccadilly Circus so quiet," said a London doorman. Only four months ago, King George's people had worried through his terrible operation and his slow recovery. Then they had seen him, a week ago, in newsreels and newsphotos, bareheaded and seemingly hale, waving a cheery farewell to his daughter at London airport. Despite his still haggard features, they had felt a surge of relief at the apparent improvement in his health. The royal tour itself was reassuring : the Princess would never have undertaken so long a trip if her father were...
...indebtedness of one of our stories to D. H. Lawrence's "The Sun," it came to my attention on Saturday, and I expected to make public in this letter written on Sunday, that in the same issue the story called "Mary Jane and Jerry" contained verbatim extracts from Nancy Hale's "Midsummer," published in the New Yorker. This letter cannot begin to reveal our displeasure and embarrassment at such unethical practices...
...quotations on the left are excerpts from "Mary Jane and Jerry," a story by William Morrison '52 in the December issue of "The Harvard Advocate." Those on the right are from "Mid-Summer," a story by Nancy Hale in "Short Stories from the New Yorker," copyright 1940 by the F-R Publishing Company...