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...difficult. To fill it Churchill named popular Lord Woolton, Minister of Food since April 1940. Woolton had proved himself an adroit administrator, a skillful user of press, radio, cinema to keep the public informed. Born Frederick James Marquis in Manchester 60 years ago, Lord Woolton is a onetime Liverpool settlement worker who turned to merchandising, became chairman of Lewis's Ltd. (department stores). As a Minister he had achieved the seemingly impossible, made people like him while he tampered with their eating habits...
...from Hot Pots. Arthur Christiansen - grandson of a Danish grocer and son of a Liverpool shipwright - started newspapering by covering parish council meetings, funerals and hot pot suppers for the Wallasey (Cheshire) Chronicle. By 1929 he was assistant editor of the Sunday Express. In that job he distinguished himself the night the British dirigible R-101 crashed in France in 1930. He leaped from his bed at 2 a.m., sped to his office in pajamas, remade his paper, scooped all England...
...Essex, where he entertains friends by cooking a saucy chafing-dish concoction he calls "Steak Diane." Few besides himself can really stand it. He has a wife and four children, including twins. His oldest boy, Michael, only 16, recently became head of the London Daily Mail's Liverpool bureau. Say British newsmen: an inkling of the same type...
Reunion. The white ship with the green band around her belly and red crosses all over her turned up in Liverpool next day. As the Atlantis came alongside the quay, a voice began calling "Cynthia"; soon the battered ranks along the rail were roaring in chorus: "Cynthia, Cynthia, Cynthia." A tall, handsome girl stepped out of the packed crowd on the dock and waved. Cynthia Elliot, niece of Lady Maud Carnegie, was taken prisoner with a mobile canteen unit in France in 1940, put to nursing 1,500 wounded and captured men of Dunkirk. With many of those...
...Colonel Buckley,' I said, 'you British believe in capital; we believe in capitalism. . . . With us the initiative of the individual comes first; and capital . . . comes second. You put capital and security of income first. You are astonished because a large Liverpool company can develop in 80 years from ?50,000; we would be astonished if a large Chicago company had that much capital 80 years ago or even existed...