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...Author. If you had never seen a picture of Giles Lytton Strachey you would never think from reading his books that he is spindle-shanked and spectacled, with a long red beard and a falsetto voice. Cousin of the late John St. Loe Strachey, editor of the London Spectator, Lytton Strachey first made a name for himself by writing Landmarks in French Literature (1912); nine years later Queen Victoria made him a bestseller. Unmarried, 51, Strachey lives in London but goes to the country to work; "it isn't so much the noises of London that prevent concentration...
...barking speech against Scot MacDonald's bill for amending the unemployment insurance laws, his first since he resigned from the Labor Party (TIME, March 9). Presently he was joined by the other three members of his Party in the House: his beauteous wife Lady Cynthia, Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey and William Edward David Allen...
...front cover)* Even the late, great Theodore Roosevelt was dragged last week into Britain's Imperial Conference tariff controversy (TIME, Oct. 13). Free traders dug out a letter posted to English Editor St. Loe Strachey by President Roosevelt...
Engaged. John St. Loe Strachey, of London, Laborite candidate for Parliament, son of the late Editor John St. Loe Strachey of The Spectator, cousin of Biographer Lytton Strachey (Eminent Victorians, Queen Victoria, Elizabeth and Essex); to Miss Esther Murphy, of Manhattan, daughter of President Patrick Francis Murphy of Mark Cross Co. (leather goods...
Died. John St. Loe Strachey, 67, writer, at London...