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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Peel, 21, sixth baronet; ordinary seaman, Royal Navy. A descendant of the famed British Prime Minister who founded the London police force, he was drowned when Japanese planes dive-bombed and sank his ship in the Indian Ocean two years ago. His mother, comedienne Beatrice Lillie, learned backstage of her only son's death, went on with her show. She inherited his fortune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Noblesse Oblige | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

Beatrice Lillie, known to Britain's peerage as Lady Peel (see FOREIGN NEWS), on her way to the U.S. from Britain for her first appearance in five years-starring in Showman Billy Rose's forthcoming Seven Lively Arts (TIME, July 24-was bounced off a plane in Ireland, had to await a priority while the show, having chalked up a record $300,000 advance sale, went into rehearsal without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Showfolk | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

...Since the winds of a north-moving hurricane move clockwise, they peel off from the north along the west side of the storm, and strike south...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: The Great Whirlwind | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

Beatrice Lillie, Britain's brittle, brilliant No. 1 musicomedienne, working harder than ever at entertaining soldiers since the 1942 death in Far East action of her 20-year-old son, Sir Robert Peel, was signed by Broadway's Billy Rose to make her first U.S. appearance in five years. She will star with Comedian Bert Lahr in Rose's Seven Lively Arts, to open in December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Grand Tourists | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

...chief of staff." The operational planning brain of his "first eleven" is his present chief of staff, little-known, nervous, brilliant, squeaky-voiced Major General Francis Wilfred ("Freddie") de Guingand. Freddie handles Monty's Intelligence and operations. Personnel and supply problems go to Major General Miles William Arthur Peel Graham, who has virtually revolutionized British Army supply methods. Both men are with him now in Normandy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF FRANCE: Meeting in Normandy | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

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