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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1933, Britain's dusty little Saturday Review was published by the country's reputedly wealthiest woman. Dame Fanny Lucy Houston, widow of a shipping tycoon. Lady Houston considered herself a Conservative, but made her otherwise mediocre weekly memorable for the blatancy of its attacks on Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who she believed were plotting to sell out the British nation to the Bolsheviks. A plump, imperious person, voluble to an epic degree, Lady Houston died last month, her age, which she had kept secret, probably 65 to 70. Since no will...
Last week, readers were amazed to see the Saturday Review minus its familiar red, white & blue cover, still more astonished to read an editorial notice: "Today the Saturday Review resumes its old position as the leading Conservative weekly." Leaving no doubt about their repudiation of their former angel, the editors further announced: "The dictatorship is over and we return to constitutional government...
With little advertising except a two-page "Register" of gloomy provincial hotels, the Saturday Review was most interesting when Lady Houston was most irritated at some new crime of Britain's democratic government. Articles which Lady Houston wanted to reach a wider public than the Review's top circulation of 50,000 (achieved when the price was reduced to 4?) were put on the presses as pamphlets. At such times, Lady Houston's order was: "Keep on printing until I tell you to stop!" Sometimes "Lucy" forgot to call a halt, so the printers always arbitrarily ended...
...Review's inside back cover, a standing feature was "Lady Houston's Cold Cure," for she, like America's Bernarr Macfadden, fancied herself as a health authority. A stern course of nostrums beloved by Britons (Gee's Cough Linctus, Langdale's Cinnamon, Byard's Oil), the cure was dedicated by its inventor to suffering mankind with this benediction: "If this remedy cures you, and I hope and believe it will, please report to me, and in payment let your fee be-just saying-God bless Lady Houston...
Coincidental with this news, it was also announced that one elementary course at least--Biology D--will hold a review of the term's work this Sunday evening in Emerson D at 8 o'clock. George W. Beadle, assistant professor of Genetics, and Luzern G. Livingston, instructor in Biology, will conduct the session which will be devoted principally to the answering of questions of men in the course...