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...book giving serious arguments for a system of simple English as a common language among all nations has been put out by Ivor Armstrong Richards, head of Harvard's Commission on English Language Studies. Basic English and Its Uses (Norton; $2) says that the greatest number of arguments against this simple language do not commonly come from persons fearing Anglo-Saxon expansion but from supporters of languages that are not natural, such as Esperanto...
Died. John Richard Brinsley Norton, 87, fifth Baron Grantley, oldest member of the House of Lords; five weeks after he was named co-respondent in a successful divorce action (TIME, July 12); in London. His hobby: collecting dolls, from Restoration to Victorian...
This description of the first Battle of Kula Gulf was cabled by TIME correspondent Duncan Norton-Taylor, who was aboard one of the U.S. warships...
From his vantage point at Admiral William F. Halsey's headquarters, TIME Correspondent Duncan Norton-Taylor thus appraised the Allied offensive in the Pacific last week. What he wrote applied to every phase of that offensive-in the Solomons, in New Guinea 700 miles to the west, in the islands between...
...William Norton's Labor Party won 17 seats, a gain of eight. Labor had expected more...