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...quiet Surrey countryside, King Peter went for a quiet walk with his pretty wife, the former Princess Alexandra of Greece, who is expecting an heir to their vanishing throne...
...pawky, pink-faced Nathaniel Gubbins lives with his buxom, red-topped wife, his two daughters, and assorted animals in a cozy house in Surrey which he calls "The Nest." Each week, an army of Britons (including Winston Churchill) regularly read Nat Gubbins' column "Sitting on the Fence" in Lord Beaverbrook's Sunday Express. There Britain's most popular columnist sets out, through various mouthpiece characters (including himself) his often tart, always British comments on his life and hard times...
Died. Sir Leo George Chiozza Money, 74, short, swart, startling British economist, onetime M.P. and Encyclopedia Britannica editor; in Bramley, Surrey. Born in Italy as plain Leo Chiozza, he attained a British title, originated Allied shipping strategy against U-boats in World War I. Sir Leo, in letters-to-the-editors, defended Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and Japan as "frustrated and deprived nations...
Married. Leslie Hore-Belisha, 45, onetime British War Secretary (1937-40) and Cynthia Elliott, 29, repatriated British war nurse; at Norbiton, Surrey. Long a confirmed bachelor, he once vowed that he would never marry because no woman could cook like his mother...
Died. Dame Ethel Smyth, 86, Eng land's top woman composer (Mass in D), writer (As Time Went On), onetime suffragette; in Woking, Surrey. Mannish Dame Ethel was once jugged for throwing a brick through the Home Secretary's window. She also smoked cigars...