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The Captain. Master of the Queen Mary in war, and in her return to peacetime service, is Captain Cyril Gordon Illingworth, 64. The Captain does things the way he learned that they should be done as a cadet (at one shilling a month) in white-hulled, white-topped, square-rigged...
* Among the backers of Bricett (who failed to finish): the Reverend J. S. Clarke, vicar of St. Barnabas Church, Plymouth, who advised his congregation to put a bob (no more) on the race. He added: "Though betting is a mug's game, to say that he who puts a...
Last week Londoners were reading How to Win Fortune, by Lord Beaverbrook, who hadn't a shilling at 20, and at 30 had ?1,000,000. The best advice he could give was to shun Monte Carlo, and to go to work on one's industry, judgment and...
To revive the habit of courtesy to customers (a wartime casualty in England as in the U.S.), Retailer Fred Trippett of Hull instituted a novel incentive plan last week. Trippett handed out envelopes containing ten shilling notes to customers chosen at random, asked them to give them to the "most...
In the heart of wartime London, on Trafalgar Square, there was one place where you could hear music every weekday: the National Gallery. In noontime concerts there Pianist Myra Hess provided a music-filled haven for weary, worried war workers, fighting men and blitzed citizens. By war's end...