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...Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, his upper lip never stiffer than in the glare of BBC-TV lights, mourned the backfire of some backstab aimed in his memoirs (TIME, Nov. 24) at Dwight Eisenhower: "I sent him a copy of my book. The result was silence. I sent him a Christmas card with a very warm greeting, much warmer than to anyone else. Again there was only silence. I am awfully sad if I have lost the friendship of that great and good...
...lives of city suburbs. His own life is cramped by book reviewing (London Daily Telegraph), a trade he detests, but he has managed some grace notes. His Berkshire country home is an old rectory in Wantage, birthplace of Alfred the Great. There his busy wife Penelope (daughter of Field Marshal Lord Chetwode) hunts and fishes with Pam-like energy, keeps an eye on their son and daughter and runs a thriving tea shop called King Alfred's Kitchen. She puts up jam; he musingly produces about one poem every six weeks. "Almost any age seems civilized except that...
...siege around Alhucemas was relieved, the airfield recaptured, the road to Tetuán reopened. On a visit to Tetuán last week, new Leftist Premier Abdallah Ibrahim borrowed a phrase from France's famed pacifier of Morocco. Marshal Lyautey: "The government had to show force to avoid using...
...Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery...
Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery. Among men who know field marshals best, Monty candidly picks Monty...