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...Prime Minister played to crowds in Wales and hopscotched around England, even stopping at a Royal Navy lifeboat station, Labor Leader Michael Foot, 69, was also out campaigning, putting in tiring ten-stop days around the country. In Surrey the silver-haired scholar hugged a black woman, was cheered by some unemployed youths and pledged to work for an end to fox hunting while cuddling a baby fox. His deputy, Denis Healey, 65, was just as busy. In York he sat down at a piano to play a funeral march-"to remind everyone where Thatcher is taking us"-and then...
Herman B Leonard, assistant professor of Public Policy Stanley S Surrey professor of Law and Paul McDamel, professor of Law at Baston College endorsed, with some reservations Bradley's proposal, co-sponsored with Rep-Richard Gephardt...
...Surrey said he would prefer to see all tax loopholes removed but accepts the political need to keep exemptions such as the deduction for charitable contributions in the proposed legislation...
DIED. Frank Swinnerton, 98, novelist, belletrist and chronicler of English literary life for 70 years; in Cranleigh, Surrey, England. Born outside Victorian London, Swinnerton turned out 62 uneven but cheerfully unpretentious books. His intricately plotted, somewhat Victorian novels included Nocturne (1917) and Death of a Highbrow (1961), a book that he and his critics regarded as his best. The agreeable Swinnerton had a gift for making extraordinary friends (among them H.G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, G.B. Shaw and Aldous Huxley), whose lives he recounted in several spirited but gentlemanly memoirs...
...settled down in England, with a small income, a conservative club (the Cocoa Tree), a cottage in Surrey (for Ethel) and growing celebrity as a writer of comic short stories. But nobody ever takes a comic writer seriously, and, Saki complained, "a humorist is almost invariably expected to be funny for life." As World War I approached, he grew discontented with the coffee-spoon London world that had provided him with targets for satiric comedy, as well as with himself for belonging...