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...social position of the English golf pro, who is expected to tip his hat to club members and cannot eat in club dining rooms. Cotton customarily strides into St. Andrews by the front door, tips his hat to nobody. Lessons from him, at London's Mid-Surrey Club and at Monte Carlo on the French Riviera, cost a de luxe two guineas an hour. The great Cotton wanted to win his third British Open more for personal prestige than for the paltry $600 prize...
This year in Addlestone, Surrey, St. Mary of the Angels' Song School continued the ancient tradition by having schoolboy Dennis McMichael of Birmingham "consecrated" in full panoply-mitre, crozier, and ring (see cut). Addlestone's 1945 boy bishop has no church duties, officiates in leading deputations of other boys to visit the sick, sing carols...
...Dentists went on strike in Surrey, Sussex, Kent and Hampshire. They wanted higher health-insurance payments (from $25.50 to $42) for installing false teeth...
...Liberal Party began to decline, Lloyd George lost power, became Britain's premier Elder Statesman. He still spoke with authority-but only for himself. In time his white-thatched, black-caped figure appeared less & less often in London, more & more often on his Surrey and Caernarvonshire estates. But World War II brought him to his feet in Commons to give Prime Minister Chamberlain a piece of his mind for sending the Finns "too little and too late...
...protege. Ambassador Patterson visited the King day after day, trying to explain that the U.S. had not expected and now deplored his breaking with Tito just before the second Roosevelt-Stalin-Churchill meeting. Peter swallowed his pride and consulted his displeased parent, Queen Mother Marie. At Egham House in Surrey, Mr. Subasich had an emotional session with the King and the ladies of the royal family: Queen Mother Marie; Peter's young wife, pregnant Queen Alexandra; and her mother, Greek Princess Aspasia...