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...much as ?30 for an evening's work. In the midst of the merriment, many a Londoner was cast into the dumps at news that what might well have been the biggest and best party of all was canceled. It was to have been given by irrepressible Norah Docker, the blonde and lively wife of Daimler's Board Chairman Sir Bernard Docker, in honor of her 50th birthday...
Nobody in Britain could throw a better binge than Lady Docker, whose democratic ways and goldplated, zebra-lined Daimler motorcars have long been the solid staples of London's gossip columns. Unfortunately for London partygoers, however, just as Norah's plans were crystallizing last week, the Daimler people fired her husband (see BUSINESS), and Norah moodily canceled her party. "How could they do it?" she said of her husband's employers, a question that echoed the sentiments of many a party girl toward Britain's spoilsports. As Debutante Felicity Drew, guest of honor at the Thames...
Four years ago Norah Berg, self-styled "The Beachcomber," of Ocean City, Wash. wrote to tell us about the lively little community of shore-dwellers whose members, she said, "live in shacks and spend their time reading, fighting and drinking home-brew," as well as engaging in heated debates about the material they read. In her letter, printed in this space, Mrs. Berg said that she would like to write a book about them, if she "could more aptly portray the lives of these people...
Lady on the Beach is the story of Norah and her husband, Old Sarge, who left the city to settle down to a quiet life of beachcombing, clam digging, crabbing, reading and talking in the down-at-the-heels seaside community-a "poor man's Paradise." But Norah and her Old Sarge no longer have the quiet and contentment they once sought. Says Book Critic Lewis Gannett in the New York Herald Tribune: "It's fun to read. But Norah says the letter in TIME brought a host of tourists down the new improved highway to Ocean City...
Like many office secretaries in England, 37-year-old Norah Maloney sets great store by her weekly 5-oz. ration of chocolate, caches it in the office filing cabinet. One morning last January Miss Maloney entered her office at David Shanks & Co., Birmingham manufacturers of sheet-metal pressings, found files and paper strewn about, the cash box rifled of ?4 2s. 9d. Her chocolate bar was half eaten...