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...Britain has been conquered only twice in its history. The first time was by William the Norman in 1066 and the second by Montagu the Norman...
...cried Socialist Harold J. Laski in 1940. The British professor, making a routine denunciation of the Bank of England (much as a New Dealer attacks Wall Street), hoped then that "the reign of Montagu the Norman" would now "ebb peacefully to its close...
Creator of the birds is Dorothy Doughty (rhymes with doubty), eldest daughter of the late great Charles Montagu (Travels in Arabia Deserta) Doughty (TIME, Sept. 6). Shy, 51 and a spinster, Ceramist Doughty lives in Cornwall, England. Some ten years ago, she was inspired by John James Audubon's Birds of America, is now England's only fashioner in porcelain of the birds...
...Medicine. Dr. Montague F. Ashley-Montagu of Philadelphia no longer has a hyphen in his name...
...hundred years ago last fortnight was born an English writer who modestly proposed to restore to strength and purity the English language, which he held had been debased by all English writers since Edmund Spenser. In his own monumental writing Charles Montagu Doughty succeeded. But grateful readers and writers of the English tongue did not crowd around to give Restorer Doughty thanks. Few of them have even read his most famed book, Travels in Arabia Deserta...