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Worse shocks were to come. Her sister, with whom she had expected to stay for a few days, was living with a "friend . . . who . . . flatly refused to let me spend a night beneath their roof." Monica hurried to sanctuary with an aunt in Sussex, then on to visit her uncle, Stanley Baldwin. But not even an ex-Prime Minister could preserve her from the sight of American soldiers pinching British womanhood, or -most "sinister portent" of all-"the spectacle of London without her railings. It was almost like seeing Queen Victoria without her clothes ... The parks . .. the sacrosanct squares . . . flung...
...school but her art training "never got beyond the point of sitting around a table with a lot of girls, giggling." She was married at 18 and kept busy thereafter with a baby, a nanny, a cook, a car, a house in London, a cottage in West Sussex, and, for diversion, an occasional visit to an art gallery. Until last year she had never touched a paintbrush in her life...
...trial ended in the tiny courtroom at Lewes, Sussex, the press gallery was packed. When the white-wigged old justice pronounced the dread words, "hanged by the neck until dead," frozen-faced Haigh listened with all the emotion of a man being fined for a traffic offense...
...Durand-Deacon's cross that her fingernails were regrettably stubby and she had long nursed an idea for making plastic nails for other women similarly afflicted. One day last February, Mr. Haigh suggested they drive down to a factory he had in Crawley, Sussex. Three days later Haigh reported that Mrs. Durand-Deacon had never met him and never returned to the hotel. Scotland Yard sent out a routine tracer...
Died. Francis Sydney Smythe, 49, Mt. Everest climber, writer (more than 20 books on Himalayan and Rocky Mountains subjects) and color photographer; of an unidentified disease contracted in The Himalaya; in Sussex, England. Graduating from. Swiss Alpine feats to bigger things (Kinchinjunga, 28,146 ft, 1930; Kamet, 25,447 ft., 1931), Smythe tackled Everest (29,141 ft.) in 1933, reached the 28,000-ft. level, had to turn back after trying alone for the summit. During the war he trained U.S. and British troops in mountain warfare...