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...refer [TIME, July 28] to Colonel Josiah Wedgwood as a "china merchant" and "potter." In point of fact Colonel Wedgwood has never been actively connected with the family business. The reason is that the three brothers who owned the business between 1870 and 1890 drew up a partnership agreement which allowed each one to introduce only one son into the firm. Colonel Wedgwood's eldest brother was chosen for the honor, and the two younger sons were automatically excluded...
...Whom critics refer to as the German Keats...
Does anyone find a humorous-but not too humorous-aspect in the latest angle of World War II? I refer to the imminence of a "Bundles for Russia" campaign. Further, the probability of a song being composed about there always being a Russia and the recitation by Lynn Fontanne of the White Cliffs of Omsk. . . . Finally, we will have Brenda Frazier startling the Stork set with a most amusing pair of diamond ear clips done in the shape of a crossed hammer and sickle...
Said a newsman: "Will the Navy shoot to keep the route to Iceland open?" Colonel Knox said firmly: "I refer you again to the message." The newsman was persistent: "Does the message cover that point?" The Colonel nodded. "Yes, it does...
Determined to make the Ministry mend its muddling ways, London newsmen badger it constantly, refer to the Press v. Ministry feud as the Battle of Bloomsbury. (The Ministry operates out of Bloomsbury from an elephantine white building borrowed from London University.) Typical of the quarrel are snide cartoons of Minister of Information Alfred Duff Cooper...