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...Before the war," observed shy, polite Author Harold Nicolson, British Parliamentary Secretary to the Information Ministry, to his constituents, "I had a great friend called Colonel Lindbergh." (The Colonel used to live, in fact, on Nicolson's Kentish estate.) "Before the war, Lindbergh's opinion of the British people was, 'You're fine but you are getting soft.' Now, after every bad raid, I have the great pleasure of sending him a post card saying, 'Do you still think we are soft?' Lindbergh does not answer these cards but I like sending them...
...called a poem of John Masefield's "dead mutton" and Poet Cecil Day Lewis "an electric drill with the electricity left out." She and Osbert presented prizes to "the authors most representative of the tedious literature of the age." Novelist Henry Williamson got a stuffed fish; Biographer Harold Nicolson two stuffed kittens; the literary editor of the London Spectator 27 moth balls. Edith, by her own account, "in early youth took an intense dislike to . . . every kind of sport except reviewer-baiting...
...your issue of Nov. 25, I noticed an inaccuracy in your usually precise magazine. You said Flight Lieut. James Brindly Nicolson was the first airman to win the V. C. in this war. Actually he is at least the fifth. . . . S. M. JOHNSON...
...TIME erred. Lieut. Nicolson was the first fighter pilot, but not the first airman, to get a Victoria Cross in World War II. The first four British airmen who won V. C.s were bomber crewmen: Acting Flight Lieut. Roderick A. Learoyd (attacking a special objective on the Dortmund-Ems canal in the face of heavy point-blank fire); Sergeant Thomas Gray and Flying Officer Donald Edward Garland ("most conspicuous bravery" in wrecking the Albert Canal bridge); Sergeant John Hannah (extinguishing a roaring blaze in a bomber instead of bailing...
Smith's Dean Marjorie Hope Nicolson: "It seems to me that such an educational policy . . . would reduce all of our colleges to a general level...