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...revising her new novel, she wrote a note to her sister saying: "Farewell to the world." She also wrote a note to her husband, Leonard Woolf, editor of London's Political Quarterly. Then she took a walking stick and went for her favorite walk across the rolling Sussex Downs to the River Ouse. What Virginia Woolf did, what passed in her stream of consciousness beside the water no one else knew. But when her husband, following her footprints across the fields, rushed up in panic, only her stick was lying on the bank. While searchers dragged the Ouse...
Married. Lady Iris Mountbatten, cousin of George VI and great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria; and Captain Hamilton O'Malley, of the Irish Guards; at Haywards Heath, Sussex, England. Her cousin Lady Louis Mountbatten was a great friend of their cousin, Edward Windsor...
...Parliament passed an Emergency Powers Defense Act giving the Government full control over everybody and everything. As Minister of Labor, horny-handed Ernest Bevin could -if he chose-walk into London's stuffy Athenaeum Club, tap the Archbishop of Canterbury on his bald pate and order him to Sussex to dig trenches. Having, as the London Times put it, placed "our ancient liberties ... in pawn for victory," Britons wondered what their Government intended to do about it. Last week they found...
...Said Sussex villagers of five Nazis killed in a crash near Steyning: "We don't want them in our churchyard. These Germans are antichrist. They acknowledge no God but Hitler. Why should Christian burial be given pagans?" Required by law to bury all who die in his parish, Vicar E. W. Cox compromised, had graves dug in a distant corner of the churchyard, near the vicarage...
Died. John Oxenham (real name: William Arthur Dunkerley), about 80, fecund British novelist and poet; near Worthing, Sussex. He wrote 67 books. His daughter, who calls herself Elsie Jeanette Oxenham, has already published 63. His World War I verse had a great vogue and his Hymn, For the Men at the Front sold 8,000,000 copies...