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...McGregor's garden he also wriggled forever into the lives of millions. Last week news reached the U.S. that Peter Rabbit's creator was dead. The end had come three days before Christmas to 77-year-old Mrs. William Heelis ("Beatrix Potter"), wife of a British solicitor, mistress of Hill Top Farm, Sawrey, Westmorland, England, artist and author of some of the best-known children's books ever published...
...Eighth's new chief has long worn the Crusader patch on his shoulder: he had led the Eighth's XXX Corps, its tank spearpoint, all the desert way from El Alamein to Tunis. Son of a Hertfordshire solicitor, product of Eton and the Coldstream Guards, Sir Oliver was thrice wounded in World War I. He fought with World War II's B.E.F. in Flanders, still has a score to pay for Dunkirk...
...basis for this material, he will draw upon his experience as a practicing attorney and in the public service. After a term as solicitor to the Department of Labor and delegate to the International Labor Conference in Geneva, he became a Special Assistant to the Attorney General of the United States, arguing among others, the National Labor Relations Board and Social Security cases...
Among stringent divorce States, New Jersey prepared to fight; New York, to yield. Said New Jersey's Representative Donald H. McLean: "There will be resentment from other States whose public policy has been to prevent mail-order and perfunctory divorces." New York's Solicitor General Henry Epstein disagreed. Said he: "This is a great step forward in securing uniform divorce laws for the country...
...court he had also begun to interest himself in politics. Cripps joined the Labor Party and, in 1930, came "the luckiest break" of his political life. Ramsay MacDonald's Solicitor General resigned because of illness; Cripps was appointed, in his place and automatically knighted by the King. Conservative Prime Minister-to-be Stanley Baldwin remarked: "Here comes a future Prime Minister...