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Then Dramatic Critic Alan Dent, who organized the party, presented Sir Max with 57 bottles of old wines. Sir Max blinked happily, remembered his neighbors in Abinger, the Surrey village where he now lives, said: "What will the villagers think now of old Gaffer Beerbohm...
...England's best swimmers. He will never swim again. Both his legs have been amputated. Yet he is happy to be alive and thinks he is luckier than most because he has just received a letter with news that his wife got a job as postmistress in their Surrey village. Cairo is full of men made of the same stuff...
...British public no longer laughs at this last line of defense. In the opinion of many an expert, the Home Guard has made Britain almost invulnerable to attack. On the northern moors countrymen patrol day & night. Golf courses in Kent and Surrey are littered with Home Guard barricades to prevent plane landings. At all strategic crossroads Home Guardsmen man pillboxes, road blocks or well-placed tank traps. Behind every hedgerow, at every cottage sill, at every parish well stands a little body of men who believe not only in England but in themselves...
...opening of a rest home in Surrey for bombed-out mothers and children, Mrs. Anthony Drexel Biddle Jr., wife of the U.S. minister to exiled governments, posed for photographers with twin girls in her arms. One of the babies obligingly gave a smart salute...
Died. Sir Emsley Carr, 74, editor of Britain's No.1 scandal sheet, News of the World, world's largest Sunday paper; in Surrey, England. In 50 years he boosted its circulation from 40,000 to 4,000,000. Sir Emsley's formula: thorough coverage of scandal, sex crimes, divorces, miscellaneous murder, and sport. His pet boast was that he had never fired a member of his staff...