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Churchill had not become the leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition to witness in silence the liquidation of the British Empire. First there had been India, the brightest jewel; now, with Burma, that hated word "liquidation" had proceeded into the second syllable. An 18th Century statesman who scorns the 20th Century's grey impersonality, Churchill identified himself with his imperial cause. In a peculiarly Churchillian passage he said: "I have always followed [Burma] affairs with attention because it was my father* who was responsible for the annexation of Burma. ... It was said in the [18th Century] days...
Boston's art, unlike its music, is not widely publicized, and an outline of the considerable felicities of local museums and galleries should prove helpful to the many newly arrived in the city. Cambridge's Fogg Museum is, itself, an unvalued jewel to many. The museum maintains a permanent collection of remarkable worth, particularly in Italian primitives, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century French painting, oriental art, English watercolors, and prints. It has frequent loan exhibits, a distinguished example being the Maurice Wertheim collection of post-impressionists and modern French painting shown this summer. At present Fogg is displaying its own fine...
...excluded, to have tea with an unnamed friend), a nimble burglar had slipped past two Scotland Yard detectives, clambered up a drainpipe at rambling, red brick Ednam Lodge and gained entrance to the Windsors' white-walled bedroom. He went to a Gladstone bag, removed a brown leather jewel case. From a small leather box on the Duke's bedside table, he plucked a valuable watch. Two hundred yards away, he stopped, picked through the jewel case, discarded some inexpensive hatpins. Then he drove away. According to the Duchess, he had stolen every jewel she owned except those...
...jewel collection stood for the kind of life no longer popular with austerity ridden Britons or Australian socialists...
...John Reddy. His charge: the day before the Crawfords were to be married on Bride & Groom, they celebrated their engagement on a rival (CBS) show called Your Hope Chest, told their whole love story on the air, collected a four-chair dinette set, four pairs of nylons, two 17-jewel wrist watches, a woman's suit, two five-ply tires, a set of luggage, an electric iron, a man's shaving kit, a grill and toaster set, a waffle iron, a case of frozen peas and a case of corn...