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...nimble-witted company. Immediately one senses that here is a true scholar, soaked with the disciplinary English tradition. He is modest about his life-history, protesting that the academic life is a series of books and lectures. Endowed with no financial advantages, Nock struggled his way through the Portsmouth, England, public schools, gained scholastic renown by studying a path through Trinity College, Cambridge, and cased his mature days travelling, researching, reading and writing. But here is a character whose personality is so diverting that the usual stories of war-experiences, travel tales or tight squeezes have to take a back...
...taken directly from the archives of Asia Minor, records which demand a speaking knowledge of the world's most difficult tongues. An amazed tutee once caught him translating an original Greek text directly into Sanskrit as fast as writing allowed. His scholarship has carried him from the docks of Portsmouth to friendship with luminaries such as Kittredge, Russell, Gay, and Housman. Favorite recreations besides writing a book include Wodehouse, detective fiction, and travelling--the latter having taken him to every port of Europe save one, all of the Near East and most of North and South America...
...Luftwaffe did some dark electioneering for Candidate Smith -by striking, night after shrieking night, at Britain's port towns. Candidate Smith's cause did not suffer by the fact that Birmingham was comparatively spared, that the pattern for the moment was a new and ominous one: Southampton, Portsmouth, Portland, Devonport (Plymouth), Milford Haven, Pembroke-all the stations and installations of Britain's most important weapon in Britain's most important battle...
...Reprisalist Smith's political hopes were based on unhappy, grim phenomena. Not the least was the fact that morale in the repeatedly bombed naval ports was slipping. Portsmouth and Plymouth got theirs so badly last week that the people began fleeing town. An Associated Press correspondent reported after a tour through Plymouth: "One heard the cry, 'We can take it,' but one also heard the understandable question, 'What...
LONDON--The Royal Air Force and Nazi Luftwaffe traded some of their heaviest blows today with the RAF heaping destruction on Cologue and the invasion ports and German bombers subjecting damaged Portsmouth to its most savage attack...