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...sent their regrets. The Archbishop of York thought the use of his name was enough. Professor Hector Hetherington of Moral Philosophy at Liverpool University had a previous engagement. But an immense crowd of "Adults Only" hurried to Central Hall, Westminster and waited breathlessly to hear the real truth about Hon. Violet Blanche Douglas-Pennant, onetime Commandant of the Women's Royal Air Force...
...abruptly dismissed from the service by Lord Weir, president of the Air Council. People, and Hon. Violet Blanche particularly, wanted to know why. She refused to accept any other government post until her name had been cleared. She comes of potent family: her brother is Lord Penrhyn and she is related to Viscounts Falmouth and Portman, Sir W. E. Cuthbert-Quilter and Dudley M'Garel-Hogg, Lord Magheramorne. There were editorials in the newspapers and an investigation by the House of Lords Select Committee. Nothing came of it except a brief statement from the Attorney General in the House...
...Hon. Violet Blanche's potent relatives and speakers at the Central Hall meeting last fortnight gave the lie direct to the Attorney General. After a few kind words by the chairman, famed Dr. Frederick William Norwood, pastor of the London City Temple, a Mr. J. J. Edwards rose to make the speech of the evening...
...First one-eyed pilot to fly the Atlantic, Pilot Post was not the first to try. Before him went Francis Coli, lost in 1927 with Charles Nungesser; and Walter G. Hinchliffe, lost with the Hon. Elsie Mackay in 1928. Other famed uni-oculars: Golfer Tommy Armour, Reporter Floyd Gibbons, Gatecrasher "One-Eye" Connelly, Admiral Lord Nelson, Reformer William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson, "Big Bill" Heywood, Fisticuffer Harry Greb...
...Famed young Etonians this year are: Hon. Francis David Langhorne Astor and Hon. Michael Langhorne Astor; Viscounts Chelsea and Northland; Earl of Shrewsbury. Eton's many celebrated graduates include: 17 British Prime Ministers (Harrow has six including Lord Peel, Lord Palmerston and .Stanley Baldwin), Lord Roberts, Viscount Byng, Marquis Curzon, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Major General Corn wall is, Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington, Novelist Henry Fielding, Poets Phineas and Giles Fletcher, Edmund Waller, Thomas Gray, Percy Bysshe Shelley (but George Gordon Lord Byron was a Harrovian...