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There, in that summer month 25 years ago, word went around the beaches, the yachts, the tennis courts, the polo fields that twelve handsome, eligible young men -ten of them from Yale-were coming to Peacock Point, to spend their summer in the most hazardous, heroic, romantic way possible: learning to fly in the hope of becoming wartime aviators-if the U.S. should ever by any chance become involved in the worst war that the world had ever known...
Before he ascended the famed Peacock Throne, the Shah's name was Reza Khan. The Pahlavi he added means "Parthian" in Persian. The phrase "a Parthian shot" refers to the classic Parthian archers' tactic of shooting arrows over their shoulders as they fled. Last week, before he started shoving out Germans, the Shah first told the Allies that to do so would violate Iranian neutrality. The British will be contented to have him continue firing over his shoulder as long as he keeps the Germans moving...
Before World War II's outbreak, the Duke of Kent was known in Britain as a driver of fast cars, an eager nightclub patron (he plays quite good jazz piano), the husband of beauteous, peacock-proud Princess Marina of Greece. But since the war he has settled down, worked hard at his job. Side trip: he will go to Hyde Park on Aug. 23 to visit President Roosevelt. Denied: that he will see the Windsors, who, it was reported, would soon visit their ranch at High River, 35 miles south of Calgary, Alberta...
...Henry Morgenthau Jr. and Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Jones. Morgenthau has insisted that all British holdings be sold to help pay for U.S. aid-to-Britain. T. J. Carlyle Gifford, sent here by the British Treasury to liquidate listed securities, has done his best to comply. But Sir Edward Peacock, a Norman man sent here to dispose of British investments in privately owned U.S. corporations, has enlisted Jesse Jones's aid. Along with Sir Frederick Phillips, Under Secretary of the British Treasury, Sir Edward arranged the deal in which Jones lent British-American Tobacco...
...arms and legs and dragged him out to their car. It streaked over the eight miles of road to the scene of the crime, other cars following. Out in the woods beside the field, somebody built a bonfire. Somebody asked Spivey if he had raped Mrs. Peacock. He said he had not seen her in five years. Somebody asked Spivey if he knew where his potato patch was, near there. When Spivey said he did not, the man said, "You're a God-damned liar" and hit him on the head with the butt of his pistol...