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Early in the century a fine, fiery Irish-Cornish lady named Marie Connor Leighton wrote throbbing serial stories with titles like Fires of Love and Sealed Lips. A copy boy waited in the hallway of her house in St. John's Wood, London, to dash with the latest installments to Lord Northcliffe's Daily Mail. The income kept her household going: six servants, four dogs, three children, a secretary and a husband...
...Tempestuous Petticoat, one of the children, Clare Leighton, now a U.S. wood engraver, has set out to remember mania in all her Edwardian glory. Mama first fell madly in love at ten (with a window cleaner), published her first novel at 16, and believed until the end of her life (1941) that the secret of a ladylike complexion was cold water, lemons and dry oatmeal, externally applied...
...Best Flannel. One consequence was that the main bedroom in the Leighton house was littered with oatmeal dust and old lemon peels "turned all conceivable shades of blue and green mold." Underneath a study table heaped with notes scrawled on brown paper bags, paste pots, unpaid bills and old quill pens sat an assortment of patient, sighing dogs-preponderantly Skye terriers, since Queen Victoria had been partial to Skyes. And since the dear Queen was whispered to have been partial to flannel underwear, garments of the best bluish-green Welsh flannel were generally draped over the study furniture and fireplace...
Because of the complications of war credits, no definite compilation has yet been made as to what academic class these men will be assigned. Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Freshmen, has stated that those classified as Freshmen will get the same sort of reception as any normal entering class...
...recent months Generalissimo Chiang has won brilliant military victories which many an American detractor of Chiang thought he never would. In the meantime, the Communists have become more stubborn. The delicate and drawn-out negotiations which General Marshall, together with U.S. Ambassador John Leighton Stuart, had been carrying out, have come to a virtual standstill. If any new presidential statement were issued, it should have reconsidered China policy in the light of current events. As matters now stand, a new and realistic statement will be difficult to draft for some time to come...