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...profitable Sanka account, handed it over to a rival agency. Later the company saw the mistake and in 1928 hired him as Sanka's advertising manager. Brooklyn-born Mortimer has a hobby that fits right in with the food business. He runs a 400-acre dairy farm in Sussex County...
British Conservatives gave a cautious cheer last week. In two by-elections, their candidates won handsomely. Both seats are Tory strongholds: the Arundel & Shoreham district of West Sussex is a rich man's garden, and Harrogate is a Yorkshire spa packed with retired gentlefolk. But in face of the traditional loss of popularity of the party in power, the Tories won a higher percentage of the vote than they had in the 1951 election. That made it seven by-elections in a row (six of them Tory victories) in which the Tories have increased their 1951 percentages...
...first Englishman" was first heard from in 1911 when Charles Dawson, lawyer and amateur anthropologist, unearthed skull fragments and part of a jaw in a gravel pit near Piltdown in Sussex. The skull was obviously human, but the apeishness of the jaw made some authorities suspicious. Others accepted both as genuine. In honor of Finder Dawson they labeled Piltdown man Eoanthropus (dawn man) dawsoni. To some anthropologists, who often jump to conclusions as quickly as a monkey jumps on a banana, the contrast between the skull and the jaw all but "proved" him to be a link connecting apes...
...thrilled the crowds with the airborne hot-rodding that Britain encourages at Farnborough. He buzzed the spectators at flashing speed with his red. needle-nosed Hawker Hunter, slapped them with supersonic bangs, whirled in splendidly executed acrobatics. Then one sunny afternoon he flew down to the sea off Littlehampton. Sussex, to have a try at the official low-level speed record...
Biased Reporter. The Time's mourning grain of sand turned out last week to be plump, bearded Dr. Eugene Horsfall-Ertz, 53, jovial headmaster of a boys' school in Sussex. Dr. Horsfall-Ertz, whose hobby is history, has set himself the sizable task of cleaning up Richard's bad reputation. Like some other scholars, Horsfall-Ertz has come to the conclusion that Richard has been grossly maligned by history, that he did not murder the little princes, and that, all in all, he was one of the best, kindest and wisest kings in England's history...