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...scientific precision. She got a few weird ideas about how the marriage bed should be placed (always in a north-south direction, "in tune with magnetic currents"). Last winter she became ill, attributed it vaguely to "radioactivity in the atmosphere." Last week, widowed since 1949, she died in Surrey...
...after day they came, sloshing through England's summer rain, jamming the road from London to the Surrey town of Lingfield with so many cars that the Automobile Association had to put up special yellow signs marking the way. What they came to see-retired army officers, shopkeepers, typical British families in holiday clothes-was a rectangular building faced with white Portland stone and topped by a spire sheathed in lead-coated copper: the London Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was the first Mormon temple to be built in Britain...
...Middle East. "Lord Jim" Holloway (so dubbed for his courtly ways during a tour as superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy) since February has paced a shore-based bridge in London as Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, commuted to his Navy-owned mansion in Surrey in a black Imperial. His clipped accent, his malacca stick with mufti, and his penchant for quoting Dickens and Thackeray delighted Londoners. But in 40-odd years of Navy life, Annapolisman Holloway ('19) has carved a commendable seadog career. During World War II he steamed in with the first...
...cuts loose occasionally on the trumpet (which he plays with some skill), flies his own plane. He drives solely to win, cares little about how he accomplishes it ("I haven't bloody well got a driving style"). Hawthorn started racing motor bikes as a teen-ager in Farnham, Surrey, where his father ran a garage. Driving for Ferrari and Jaguar since 1953, Hawthorn has gained a reputation for punishing the cars he drives, getting involved in frequent accidents. He has no manager. "Mike couldn't be managed," explained a friend. "One day he is friendly and the next...
Novelist Hubbard is headmaster of a Surrey school named Pitmans College, and there can be small doubt that his first entry in fictionship will dilate his pupils...