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Under the Gothic pile of Parliament's World War I Victory Tower, two V.C.s met. Both were there to sell Victory Bonds for World War II. They shook hands, parted. One was trim, khakied Major Paul Triquet, who won the Victoria Cross early this year before Ortona (TIME, March 20). The other was little Philip Konowal, whose glory had been forgotten by almost everybody but himself...
...Rolls Royce popped a peppery dowager. She crossed the sidewalk to the sedate five:story pile, a block from Government House in Buenos Aires. Two policemen, instead of the usual two liveried flunkeys, stood in the high-arched doorway. Head high, shoulders back, Doňa Zelmira Paz de Anchorena turned, walked stiffly back to her limousine. She had come to see with her own eyes what she and many another Argentine had believed impossible: La Prensa, one of the world's great newspapers, had been forced to close for the first time in its 74 years...
...Earl of Lonsdale, 87, legendary last of an 18th-Century pattern - the swashbuckling, sporting peer; in Oakham, Rutland, England. A vigorous black sheep of one of Britain's noblest families, Lord Lonsdale was born at ugly, Gothic, ancestral Lowther Castle (described by myopic Wordsworth as "that majestic pile"), educated at Eton where he was flogged 32 times. He soon tired of this, joined a circus, toured Switzerland for a year and a half as an acrobat and trick rider, is said to have punched cows in Wyoming, explored Alaska, been either a bandit or vigilante in a Western stagecoach...
...Castle, County Waterford, Ireland. The tall, high-domed, horse-fancying Eton & Cambridge-man met the musicomedy star (an Omaha brewer's daughter) in the late '20s, married her at his family's rural, palatial "Chatsworth" (Derbyshire) in 1932, soon established her in their cliff-topping Irish pile, complete with salmon stream, 200 rooms and (she said) one bath. Their daughter (1933) and twin sons (1937) lived only a few hours...
...paper napkin is .003 inches thick and such napkins are piled up, starting with one, then adding two, then adding four and doubling the new batch 32 times in all, will the pile finally be one foot high? Or will it be as high as the ceiling? Or will it be as high as the Empire State Building...