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Bearded Montagu Collet Norman, 69, Governor of the Bank of England since 1920, began harvesting cabbages on what was formerly his smooth lawn in Kensington...
Sprawling Kensington, Pa., centre of the U. S. hosiery industry, has seen some sad sights. It has seen its busy mills-where in the palmy days before depression and improved machinery began to displace labor, a good knitter could make $125 a week-oust workers for machines; then close themselves for lack of work...
Flourishing in the early '20s among Kensington's many busy mills was the Westmoreland, one of a chain of mills operated by Interstate Knitting Mills, Inc. Years went by, the machinery in Westmoreland's dingy red-brick building grew old, became outmoded. Last summer Interstate closed the mill. Faced with joblessness, the 500 employes decided to take it over, run it as a cooperative. They borrowed on their homes, cars, signed quick notes, and incorporated as the Hancock Knitting Mills...
...ways to have any truck with newfangled sandbags and gum-papered windows, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, 91, eldest living daughter of Queen Victoria, stuck to her 98-room Kensington Palace apartment in air-vulnerable London. Once known as the "Royal Rebel" for marrying against her mother's wishes, for smoking cheap gaspers, for many another unregal trick, she condescended to such precautions as dark blue window-blinds, an underground tunnel near the kitchen...
...Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross were Flying Officers K. C. Doran, who led the raid on the Kiel Canal, and A. McPherson, who scouted for it; T. M. Wetherall Smith and John Barrett, who landed in heavy seas to rescue the crew of the torpedoed Kensington Court. To Sergeant Pilot W. E. Willits, who brought his ship out of a dive and landed it after the first pilot had been killed by a bullet, the King gave the Distinguished Flying Medal (for non-Commissioned officers). Eldest of the medalists was 26, youngest...