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...Checking. The Glyn, Mills bank in London, England last week began checking signatures on bank checks via television. During World War II the bank's records were moved to Osterley Park, ten miles outside London; the bank does not now have enough room in London to move all the records back. So to check a signature or any record, a clerk in Osterley Park simply holds the original in front of a TV camera and it appears on a small screen on the desk of a bank official in London...
...midst of these shouts, the Guard grew. Tom Wintringham gave it a training pattern in his guerrilla school at Osterley Park, the estate of the Earl of Jersey and his U.S. wife, onetime Cinemactress Virginia Cherrill. There in weekly batches Home Guard officers were trained in mak-ing hand grenades, using Molotov cocktails, wrecking tank treads. After a year of fighting for more armaments and more accent on guerrilla tactics, Wintringham resigned. The War Office, which suspected his politics, was glad to see him go. He was replaced by a safe man-Major General Viscount Bridgeman, the mild-mannered, sharp...
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