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Another Briton, Captain Gerald Selby Lewis Griffiths, 43, was court-martialed in a wooden hut in the heart of the Mau Mau badlands. He was accused of murdering a captured Negro forest worker suspected of belonging to Mau Mau, and of ordering his African rifleman to "shoot anyone you want...
London Art Dealer Gustav Delbanco picked up his telephone one day last week, heard a man's voice: "If you go to Room 24 in the Victoria and Albert Museum, you will find something." Delbanco promptly dispatched a messenger, who found something all right- the small (13-in.) Rodin...
"THE QUEEN TRIES ON HER DRESS!" cried a newspaper headline. "EXCITEMENT IN THE AIR!" exclaimed another. Britons by the thousands clustered around the entrances to Westminster Abbey where, in a few days, the second Elizabeth will be crowned. On three successive days, the smiling young Queen, patient, graceful and composed...
Though its curriculum has kept pace with other public schools, Christ's Hospital still gives a heavy dose of the classics. No matter how dull a boy is, he may stay on until he is 16, but C.H. has rarely been bothered by dull boys. The boys live the...
Billy was national head of three trade unions: the wharf laborers, the transport workers and the seamen. He talked like a radical, but by 1910 he was already demanding that Australia should have its own army & navy, and making speeches about the menace of Japan. That year, the Labor Party...