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...assistant curate (at ?20 a year), Cyril Garbett went to the combined vicarage of Portsmouth and Southsea, which, under the name of Portsea, was the biggest vicarage in England. The shy, reserved youth had exchanged the quiet of the cloud-shadowed chalk downs for some of the toughest waterfront slums in Britain. As quietly and systematically as he had dug in the vicarage garden, young Cyril Garbett dug into the causes of slums and poverty, turned up the disturbing idea that no matter how much help the churches' spiritual program and social services may give, the roots of most...
From 1929 to 1932, Captain Barker was aide to the Commandant of the Navy Yard at Portsmouth. Following this, he spent two years as Executive Officer of the heavy cruiser, "Portland." In 1934 he was made professor of Naval Science and Tactics here, but at the end of three years he went back to sea in command of the U. S. S. "Houston." This probably was Captain Barker's favorite command, and he is quoted as having said sadly but proudly of the "Houston," "she went down fighting...
...many a Christian mind was again openly voiced last week. The Bishop of Chichester, Dr. George K. A. Bell, speaking in Britain's House of Lords, deplored the bombing of German cities. "I am not for getting the Luftwaffe's tremendous bombing of Belgrade, Warsaw, Rotterdam, London, Portsmouth, Coventry, Canterbury and other places of military, industrial and cultural importance. But Hitler is a barbarian. There is no decent person on the Allied side who thinks we should make him our pattern or attempt to beat competitors at that market." The Bishop feared that the R.A.F. bombings would bring...
...rate the time had come when I must needs stir the stagnant gray matter away from thoughts of Portsmouth or Clearfields or the hills of Idaho. But what to say? Would the public like to know what goes on behind the closed doors of the good ship Briggs when the P. Listers are out frolicking...
...Navy "relaxees," also a new uniform. Bell bottomed, one-striped cuffs, and those inevitable 13 buttons. Plus this, a slight stay at Portsmouth or some other rest resort and then... a lovely 1943 model long handled mop, a bucket of water, a broad expanse of deck and thou beside if on the bounding main, resting between swabs. Of course, if you'd rather not relax, you can always...