Word: lichfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. By Anne Ferelith, Viscountess Anson (born Bowes-Lyon), 30, slim, brunette niece of Queen Elizabeth: Thomas William Arnold, Viscount Anson, 34, Grenadier Guards captain, son & heir of the Earl of Lichfield; after almost ten years of marriage (three of separation), two children; in London...
...Bystanders," a short story by James McGovern, is a carefully underwritten treatment of the Negro Problem. Where McGovern succeeds, Stanley Geist, in Part Two of "Lichfield, Pacific Style," fails. McGovern's simple story of injustice and violence is handled without fanfare. Geist's tedious account of Army prison conditions in the South Pacific vacillates between reportorial observation and personal history--a report done in the spirit, if not in the manner of the "New Yorker...
According to witnesses at the Lichfield prison trials, Brown, then chief of the Army's Ground Forces Reinforcement Command, had visited the notorious Lichfield guardhouse, said to one guard, "You're not tough enough on these men. You're running a hotel, Sergeant...
...poetry: T. S. Eliot always seems to be lurking somewhere between the lines. The two non-fictional articles are examples of just what the magazine should keep doing. They are unique, not available to the national magazines. The long account of Kangaroo Island, by Stanley Geist, describes this Pacific Lichfield calmly and contemplatively. Luckily, he avoided merely giving the reader a sadistic thrill, and instead analyzes the sociological reasons for the brutality, though sometimes as the price of being dull...
...hand, we have Colonel Kilian, commander of the Lichfield Reinforcement Depot, who was convicted ... of permitting brutalities at the camp [TIME, Sept. 9]. His punishment was a $500 fine and a letter of reprimand. . . . Even now he is up for promotion before the U.S. Congress...