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...farmers, Members of Parliament and editorial writers began to ask if it was still necessary for Britain to stamp out animals along with the disease. Sympathetic to their pleas, the British government is spending nearly $1,000,000 a year on foot-and-mouth research at laboratories in Pirbright. Surrey, has already developed one promising immunization technique similar to live polio virus inoculations: an attenuated live foot-and-mouth virus is grown in a culture of kidney tissues, then injected into chick embryos, mice, and finally into the muscles of animals where it multiplies harmlessly, stimulating the production of antibodies...
Davis started his musical career playing clarinet in the school band near home in Weybridge, Surrey. Later he played in the band of the Household Cavalry, soon knew he wanted to be a conductor: "I suppose you can only compare it with a religious conversion. Suddenly the spirit reveals itself to you; suddenly you understand what music is all about." The "nearest thing to professional training" that Clarinetist Davis got was the opportunity to play under, and observe, Conductor Fritz Busch as a member of the Glyndebourne Orchestra. Davis then led a number of small instrumental and singing groups...
...prototype of the penny-pinching near billionaire is U.S. Oilman Jean Paul Getty, 67, who last year plunked down a million more or less, for Sutton Place, the Surrey domain of Britain's Duke of Sutherland, partly to save money on his hotel bills in London and Paris. Last week, as if in final proof of his penny wisdom. Expatriate Getty went pound-foolish with a vengeance. To Sutton Place he invited some 80 gilded guests for dinner on gold plate, then opened the estate to more than a thousand other assorted peers, nobles, high officials...
Founded when the Union Jack fluttered from Surrey to Singapore, the Illustrated London News has survived and prospered as the embers of empire flickered. Main credit for its adjustment to the changing times rests with Editor Ingram. On any Monday morning, Ingram can be found on hands and knees in his office in Ingram House drawing up I.L.N.'s layouts. Picture news ranges from comprehensive coverage of major events to one-shot side-lights that add up to a sophisticated sampling of the week's events. Backstopping the pictures is a concise commentary that follows Ingram...
What Thou Wilt. Apart from Mamma's quirks, Havelock's boyhood in Surrey was uneventful to the point of torpor. The boy was a bookworm; the man would be a cultural boa constrictor gorged with print. He had four sisters and an absentee sea-captain father; Ellis would be woman-handled most of his life. Papa interrupted his son's reading twice, once to take him around the world at the age of seven, and a second time at 16, to deposit him in Australia for a four-year stretch of school-mastering in the rough...