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Appointed last week as Britain's Ambassador to the U.S., to succeed retiring Sir Oliver Franks: SIR ROGER MELLOR MAKINS...
...Olive Anne Mellor, a good-looking, 22-year-old Kansas farm girl, took a job as secretary to Planemaker Walter Beech, who had a precarious foothold in the aircraft business. Olive was quickly promoted to receptionist, bill collector and paymaster. In 1930 she married the boss. She helped him form Beech Aircraft and helped nurse their plane-manufacturing company along. Thus, when Walter Beech died last month, there was no trouble finding someone to fill his job. Last week O. A. Beech was elected president and chief executive officer of Beech Aircraft Corp...
...mounting suspense came the tantalizing anticlimax. "Bomb Goes Silent,'' read the headlines. Would Annie, as weary as other Londoners, just peter out? One edition later, the news was: "Park Bomb Ticks Again. Squad Takes Cover." All over London, people thought of Lieut. D. H. Mellor and his men, hovering over the faint, ominous, ticktock. Would the Royal Family watch the bomb go off? Would Buckingham palace, 350 yards away, lose its windows again, as it did during the blitz...
...evening of the third day, a handful of Londoners - stenographers, shopkeepers, even some Foreign Office toffs -collected about the familiar area now cleared for action. Lieut. Mellor and one sergeant walked into a public convenience marked "Ladies" (where the dynamite plungers had been installed). There was a hush, then Annie exploded, and greyish-black smoke shot up into the clear, rain-washed sunlight...
...pair of reporters of the Philadelphia Record, hearing of the shocking exploit of two British Security policemen who toured a London suburb in Nazi uniforms unmolested (TIME, Feb. 2), decided to see whether it could happen here. Dressed as German U-boat commanders, William B. Mellor Jr. and Frank Toughill wandered about downtown Philadelphia, talked German in a crowded automat, peering suspiciously at defense plants, asked a traffic cop questions in broken English. Only interest they aroused was from a small boy on roller skates. Said he: "Oh, boy! Join the Navy and see the world...