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After winning the battle of the air over Britain, the Germans blocked British east-coast ports with sunken ships, then made two main landings in the south of England. Simultaneously airborne troops invaded the Midlands. The first landing, in Kent and Sussex on England's southeastern tip. sucked London's defenders down to battle. Then came the second attack, to the west, in the Portland and Weymouth area of Dorset. German armor poured quickly through the inviting flats up to the rolling Salisbury Plain and the Cotswolds, then swerved southeastward to take London from the rear...
Died. Princess Beatrice, 87, youngest, last-surviving of Queen Victoria's nine children, great-aunt of King George VI, mother of former Queen Victoria of Spain; in Balcombe, Sussex. Victoria's "precious little baby" married Prince Henry of Battenberg (later Englished to Mountbatten) at 28, after the. Prince agreed to become a British subject, and she to live close by the widowed Queen. At her husband's death, Beatrice succeeded him as Governor and Coroner of the Isle of Wight, permitted a deputy to conduct the inquests. In the tradition of royal British hobbyists, she played...
...disposal during his Moscow visit. Other U.S.-made limousines brought 38 other guests. They were bound to Spiridonovka House for a four-hour, 14-course lunch with Stalin. Stalin wore his simplest Marshal's uniform-no decorations. Churchill wore his uniform as honorary colonel of a Sussex regiment-four banks of decorations. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov, U.S. Ambassador Averill Harriman, British Ambassador Archibald Clark Kerr were in mufti...
...buns, learned what it felt like to faint from hunger. He rented an abandoned studio, slept on the models' stand, with a moth-eaten bearskin for a blanket. When his salary at a press-clipping agency was upped to 30 shillings a week, he was in clover. In Sussex, in a farmhouse that had once been a priory, in a big sunny room with casement windows, he wrote his first, brilliantly titled, critical book, The Wine of the Puritans...
Died. Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, 80, British geologist, co-discoverer with Charles Dawson of the Piltdown skull, long believed England's oldest, near-human fossil (circa 100,000 B.C.); in Haywards Heath, Sussex...