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Fortnight ago Garabed Bishirgian went down to his model farm in Surrey, where he fancies prize pigs. There far from his swank Park Lane house, where the extravagance of his fabulous stag parties awed even his rich friends, the greasy, thick-set little Armenian contemplated disaster. Garabed Bishirgian was now the "Pepper King," and, as all Britons knew, the pepper pool was due for a grand smash...
...nearly $10,000,000 cash on the line for their contracts, came news that a fresh pepper shipment of 13,000,000 Ib. was London-bound aboard a steamer ploughing up the Red Sea. And when Garabed Bishirgian returned from his week end with his 600 pigs in Surrey, he found that pepper trading had been suspended...
...fifth house as a jubilee present for King George. Reminded that His Majesty is in possession of a score of palaces and castles plus houses galore, the Royal Warrant Holders' somewhat foggy spokesman conjectured that George V will probably give the house, located at Burhill in Surrey, to "some subject who has performed a conspicuous service to the Empire, or to the widow of such a person...
...Author, like many of his countrymen, is less pedantic than he looks but more than he pretends. A publisher's assistant since he was 18 (he was 19 years with Chatto & Windus), he retired to his Surrey cottage six years ago to give all his time to his own manuscripts. The late Enoch Arnold Bennett described Swinnerton: "He tells authors what they ought to do and ought not to do. He is marvelously and terribly particular and fussy about the format of the books issued by the firm. Questions as to fonts of type, width of margins, disposition...
...where the King of Siam spends most of his time, namely, on the other side of the world, there is reason on the Premier's side of the quarrel. But the Old Etonian is a stickler. When the Singapore flash reached England, His Majesty reluctantly drove up from Surrey, released an elaborate statement to the London Press. All most Englishmen cared to read was this: ''The King has intimated his desire to abdicate to the Government at Bangkok. No definite documents of any kind have yet been signed by the King...