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THERE'LL ALWAYS BE A DRAYNEFLETE (70 pp.) - Osbert Lancaster - Houghton Mifflin ($2.25).
At the council's concluding session, which was open to newsmen and the public, the tired, rumpled Foreign Ministers appeared on a stage in London's Lancaster House to read a dozen suitable speeches. It was ailing Ernie Bevin who raised his tired head from his hands to...
Around the blue baize table in London's gloomy Lancaster House, the Western Big Three Foreign Ministers conferred for three days. Dean Acheson, crisp, clear and didactic, drove home his sharp points with a wagging forefinger. Britain's ailing Ernest Bevin, chomping away at his dentures, was his...
Britain's dingy, cotton-weaving city of Lancaster (pop. 50,250) has lost most of the glamour and importance that clung to its name in the days of John of Gaunt and the Wars of the Roses. But it cherishes today one spectacular bloom in the person of its...
Soon Maclean had taken the King's Shilling and been enrolled as a private in the Cameron Highlanders. But then Maclean heard rumors that the hoaxed and understaffed Foreign Office was taking steps to corral him back into the service. "Only one thing," Maclean concluded, "could save me: early...