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Died. Francis Edwin McMurtrie, 64, author, journalist (London Sunday Express), and since 1935 editor of the world-famed Jane's Fighting Ships, the exhaustive annual reference book on the world's navies; of cancer; in Hoddesdon, England...
Lord Biskerton, known to his pals as the Biscuit, was son & heir (ah empty title) to the sixth Earl of Hoddesdon. He had red hair, a just discernible mustache, and a determination to die rather than go to work. Biscuit's old school friend Berry Conway, a mere commoner, had faced the facts and taken a job as secretary to Lon don-living U. S. Tycoon T. Paterson Frisby. Frisby talked in barks, luckily be came incoherent when dyspepsia and human folly reduced him to one of his frequent tantrums. Both Biscuit and Berry, dissatisfied with their lot, felt...
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