Word: sussex
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...correspondent (may he be hoist by his own typewriter) had said that Sir Archie was known to the boys as "The Boss," "Maestro," "Mac," or merely "The Big White Chief," then he would have been guilty of complete accuracy. Thanks for the write-up, all the same . . . HENRY STANDEN Sussex, England...
...Rochester Sneath, headmaster of Selhurst School, "near Petworth in Sussex," seemed to need advice. Since fashionable Marlborough College had recently been visited by the royal family, Sneath wrote to Marlborough's headmaster: "As you are probably aware, this summer sees the 300th anniversary of the foundation of Selhurst ... I am most anxious to have the honor of entertaining Their Majesties, if this is at all feasible. How did you engineer your royal visit...
...Arthur Conan Doyle would have enjoyed the trimmings. In his old age the author-spiritualist had deposited in the vaults of a little bank in the village of Crowborough, Sussex an old cardboard hatbox. For 25 years it gathered dust as Sir Arthur and his Sherlock Holmes gathered legend. Finally Sir Arthur's son, Adrian, went poking about and last week the secret was out. The hatbox, announced Adrian, contained unpublished writings by Sir Arthur, including The Crown Diamond, a "hitherto unknown" one-act play about Holmes, and a mysterious manuscript entitled Some Personalia About Mr. Sherlock Holmes. This...
...Glyndebourne Festival opera house, tucked away in England's Sussex Downs, bright, young (33) Composer Britten's third opera in as many years had its premiere last week. It was Britten's first try at satirical comedy; his first two operas, Peter Grimes and The Rape of Lucretia (TIME, June 9), were both dark and tragic. For the new opera, Albert Herring, Librettist Eric Crozier did a slapstick adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's cynical Le Rosier de Mme. Husson, in which an innocent village bumpkin goes off on a wild, sinful night after being chosen...
...time coupled with promises of equal aid to the continent so that Mr. Clement Attlee will not be forced to decline the offer in face of greater need elsewhere. And if western Europe can be bound into an economic self-sufficiency only by efficient English production, the Welsh and Sussex mines must be brought out of the 19th century. A further British loan, according to Washington pollsters, might be acceptable to Congress if the British matched this helping hand with a little self-help in the form of repatriating some of the 100,000 working men who daily contradict British...