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Last week Sir Auckland Geddes, Wartime Minister of National Service, onetime Ambassador to the U. S., did not tranquilize the atmosphere when he told British housewives that they ought to put some things away for a bomby day. Not only should they store food; they should also store water in bottles and jugs. In order not to upset the commodity markets, he said, they should buy very slowly and calmly. English housewives are literal-minded. Next day merchants reported sales of canned goods and water jugs falling...
Unlike his far shrewder halfbrother, the late Sir Austen Chamberlain, a skilled diplomat and linguist, Mr. Chamberlain is singularly unequipped for his "personal" chats with the leaders of other nations. During his November visit to Paris he disappointed French radio listeners by saying "I can speak no French." Last week he showed that he had at least learned something. Saying farewell to M. Daladier he beamed: "Merci, thank you, Merci, monsieur, beaucoup, beaucoup, beaucoup...
...Near East. Except for rare cases like the late T. E. Lawrence, they are generally ignored by everybody but fellow professionals. But their patient patchings have from time to time restored wonderful form to old cultures. Such restorations were James Henry Breasted's epochal History of Egypt (1905), Sir Arthur Evans' report on Pre-Hellenic Crete (1921-35). One result is that any good advertising artist now knows more about the very fine arts of the Nile valley and the Aegean islands than Sir Joshua Reynolds, for example, ever guessed...
Unfortunately for either Harvard or the Saltonstalls, the chain is not complete, for Harvard was not here when the first family immigrant, Sir Richard, came over. His son Henry graduated in the first Harvard class, whence he went back and became a fellow at Oxford. His nephew Nathaniel graduated in 1659, Nathaniel's son Richard II in 1695, Richard III in 1722, Richard IV in 1751. All four of these carried the escutcheon of justice in Haverhill...
...Before Sir Wilfred Grenfell came to Newfoundland 40 years ago, the fishermen's only medical attention came from doctor men,' who had widespread reputations just like someone on Beacon Street," Curtis said...