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...last month, in desperation, Lord Glenorchy picked the lock on a public lavatory in a Sussex pub and pocketed the contents: 18 pence (21?). But he got caught redhanded. In court last week. Lord Glenorchy was fined ?5 ($14) for his misdeed. Afterwards, reporters found him in his rooms wearing his regimental tie, as he boiled two eggs for tea. "I'm not a playboy," said Lord Glenorchy. "Having a title is not always an asset. Sometimes it is an embarrassment...
...Felpham, Sussex, England...
...braved Nazi cops in 1938 to bring the ailing Freud, with his wife and daughter Anna, from Vienna to England. Since he was bombed out of London during the blitz, Dr. Jones himself has become a placid countryman. He likes to look out of his windows at the rolling Sussex hills, which he calls "maternal mounds." A close student of the Oedipus-complected Hamlet, he is said to have coached Sir Laurence Olivier on the proper gestures to suggest the prince's improper urges...
...wife, an American, had died in 1914; his eldest son Louis was killed in World War I. When his youngest son, Peter, lost his life in World War II, Belloc gave up letters. He was already an old man. He lived on in his Sussex farmhouse, a short, stout figure, red of face, wearing a collar several times too large for him, a black hat on his round head. People said he looked like a typical John Bull. There last week, at the age of 82, he fell into his living-room fire, died four days later from burns. Years...
...polo match in Sussex, England, the crowd gasped when the fast-galloping Duke of Edinburgh thudded to the ground as his pony skidded on the wet turf, cheered when he picked himself up after a dazed few moments and legged it after his mount. Unhurt except for bruises and scratches, the duke charged back into the game, led his team to a 6-1 victory...