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Cool Command. Born in 1887 in London's Kennington district where his father was vicar, he got his first taste of soldiering at the Royal Military College at Sandhurst and was almost expelled at one point for setting the shirt of a fellow cadet on fire. In World War I, after three years in India, he fought on the Marne and was badly wounded at Ypres. He emerged from the war at 30 a lieutenant colonel. By 1938, after more service in India and the Middle East, he was a major general. During the opening months of World...
Married. Hamilton Farrar Richardson, 22, Rhodes scholar and member of the U.S. Davis Cup team; and Ann Kathryn Kennington, 22; in New Orleans...
...current rubber's five matches, four had been draws. Thus everything rested on the fifth. Twenty-four hours before it began, a wave of hope far wilder than ever gripped a partisan World Series crowd in the U.S. swept Britain. Queues lengthened outside London's Kennington Oval. Intoned the London Times: "The cricket community at the opposite ends of the world stands with bated breath...
Cheers in the Streets. His reward for a lifetime of doing his job well came in the Silver Jubilee celebration of 1935, the year before he died. Drawn by four greys with postilions, the King and his Queen drove around the poorer quarters of London, through Battersea, Kennington and Lambeth, Limehouse and Whitechapel. Everywhere, his subjects turned out to applaud and cheer...
...police bureaucracy. Even the Kindly Local Pastor backs down when it comes to chastizing his own parishioners; he's satisfied with Sunday Morning Christianity. So although Captive City ends with a short tirade against sin by the Tennessee Theotonius, Senator Kefauver, one gets the feeling that few people in Kennington--or anywhere else--really give a damn...