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...station. Between them they collected and photographed secret manuals (Particulars of War Vessels), Admiralty orders and charts. Nights they frequently relaxed at the Elm, where the pub's other patrons had come to know the generous and jovial Houghton as Harry. "One of our best customers," said the publican's wife. "We were amazed at his arrest...
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With his beet-red face and grey hair plastered to his head, Boland resembles a jovial Irish publican, but the scholarly, Dublin-born diplomat finds as much relaxation in reading Latin and Greek classics as in Irish gin and whisky. A colleague at the U.N. considers Boland "far and away the finest chairman the Trusteeship Committee ever had." This delicate post was excellent preparation for the kind of diplomacy required of an Assembly president-knowing how to preserve decorum, when to persuade someone quietly to call for an adjournment, and when to press for a night session. The Assembly...
Pegeen, the publican's daughter writes...
Eight to the Bar. In London. Publican Harry Sternshine won permission from the London County Council Public Control Committee to use an amplifier in his pub when he argued eloquently that louder music was required to attract people away from...