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Power but No Glory. The fight started in 1935 (the year Black became P.G. & E.'s president), when the Bureau of Reclamation started building Shasta and Keswick dams to get water and power to irrigate the southern part of Central Valley. The first generating units were completed in 1944, yet the bureau's irrigation program won't get under way until this summer. Thus for seven years the bureau has had plenty of power but nothing to do with...
Businessmen agreed. A doleful expression of Britain's growing disenchantment came last week from William J. Keswick, chairman of London's China Association: "The British stake in Shanghai is withering." Unless Communist China changes its tactics, said Keswick mournfully, "then clearly, whether we like it or not, the only policy open to us is to close down and shut up shop...
Alumnae are proud that World War II was partly won on the playing fields of Roedean, by Old Roedeaneans who became officers in the women's services, radio operators, ambulance drivers. Roedean itself was evacuated to Keswick, in the Lake District, while the Royal Navy took over its dormitories. The story goes that sailors billeted there almost wore out the buzzer system when they discovered neatly lettered signs: "If you want a mistress in the night, ring the bell...
...Keswick, England, 71-year-old Robert Just swore that he got rid of his rheumatism by bedding down every night for a week with a few dozen resentful bees...
Died. Sir Hugh Walpole, 57, indefatigable writer of British regional and family novels; of heart disease; at his home near Keswick, England, Heavy, broad-shouldered, energetic, he wrote heavy, broad-shouldered, energetic novels, in densely populated series (the Herries series, the cathedral town series), averaged more than a book a year from the appearance of his first novel in 1909 to the end of his life. "I write as I breathe," he remarked once...