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...headline in London's Sunday Express. Datelining their dispatches "Somewhere in Surrey," or "on the Cambridgeshire-Northants border," correspondents reported that 1,000,000 city children were busy fishing, blackberrying, golfing, bathing, enjoying many another unaccustomed treat...
Died. Arthur Rackham, 72, foremost English illustrator, elfin and old-worldish as his quaint, delicately grotesque children, gnomes, hobgobliny trees beloved by readers of fairy tales throughout the English-speaking world; in Limpsfield, Surrey, England...
Exorcised. Prince Tejansakti of Thai (formerly Siam), 5 weeks old; of evil spirits; in Virginia Water, Surrey, England, where his family and retinue are in comfortable exile. In a wordless, 1,000-year-old ceremony, Grandfather Prajadhipok (who abdicated the Siamese throne in 1935) and 20 guests made passes over little Prince Tejansakti's body with cords to trap the evil spirits, which were then burned with the cords. King Prajadhipok snipped a lock of hair from the baby's head, wrapped it in lotus leaves, set it afloat down the river. Finally, Grandfather Prajadhipok sprinkled holy water...
Died. Lord Howard of Penrith, 75, who, as Sir Esme Howard, was British Ambassador to the U. S. from 1924 to 1930; in Hindhead, Surrey, England...
Honorary Secretary C. I. Blackburne of Surrey's Haslemere Educational Museum, who managed the British end of the experiment, had no idea last week how soon, if at all, the storks would get back to Poland. "If they find a nice farm," he said, "with a frog pond they might decide to stay quite a while...