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Even before his Sussex retirement Rudyard Kipling rebuked his Britannia...
Married. Bertrand Arthur William Russell, Earl Russell, 63, famed mathematician, philosopher, pacifist, author, lecturer, advocate of complete sexual freedom including marital infidelity; and Patricia Helen Spence, 25, writer; at Midhurst, Sussex, England. Year ago Earl Russell's second wife, mother of an illegitimate son by a journalist, divorced him for adultery (TIME...
...George of Kent returned from Yugoslavia, London papers having it that the Duchess spent most of her time there "resting and sewing'' upon a layette. Until next spring they expect to rusticate at 40-room "Adsdean" in Sussex, loaned by Queen Victoria's Great-grandson Lord Louis Mountbatten who normally rents it for $250 per week...
Died, Sir William Watson, 77, "dean" of English poets, longtime "neglected genius" who three times almost became Poet Laureate; after brief illness; in Sussex, England. Best known as a lyricist for his sonnets and elegies, Poet Watson derived his greatest fame from a lampoon of Margot, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, entitled: "The Woman With the Serpent's Tongue." Excerpt...
...small artistic set which included Painter Lovat Fraser, Poet Ralph Hodgson, Sculptor Gaudier-Brzeska. She met her husband in France, where she drove a car for the French Army and was the first woman in Verdun's fortress after the Armistice. Now she lives with her family in Sussex, is at present on a trip to South Africa with her husband...