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From London to the U.S. went Columnist Dorothy Thompson, followed by a story from British Columnist Hannen Swaffer. The story: At a dinner party talkative Thompson talked everybody limp. Suddenly Lord Beaverbrook interrupted, cried: "Thompson, shut up. . . . If you're not quiet, I'll tell a story about you." He told it anyhow: how he had once found Churchill in the dumps, had played for him a recording of one of Thompson's praiseful speeches about him. At record's end "the sorrow seemed to drop off his shoulders and he looked a young man again...
...London's midsummer social season this year have not been belted earls but simple U.S. journalists. Publisher George Backer of the New York Post, Editor Herbert Agar of the Louisville Courier-Journal, Radioracle Raymond Gram Swing have dined, winedir" by the London Daily Herald's veteran Columnist Hannen Swaffer, Miss Thompson had to install three stenographers and two male social secretaries in her suite at the Savoy to answer mail and arrange engagements. So busy was she that Lady Reading, relict of the late great jurist, was unable to make a date to see her. Later Lady Reading pointedly absented...
...Fifth Column scare since last May were not only friendly but valuable to national defense. Home Secretary and Minister of Home Security Sir John Anderson promised to release about 10,000 internees. Last week, however, they were still in jail and the clamor continued. London Daily Herald Columnist Hannen Swaffer exposed the treatment of 600 alien "suspects" at Pentonville Prison. He charged that the prisoners-"no longer names but numbers"-were locked in cells all day long with only an hour's exercise, saw no newspapers, were not even allowed watches. Inveterate house of Commons questioner Laborite Emanuel Shinwell...
...Called "clean" by kindly critics, it ran for three weeks, but did better in London. He began giving religio-psychological lectures, acquired a following at his "Tea Talks" at the Mayfair Hotel. He debated in Queen's Hall on "Christianity v. Spiritualism" with famed Journalist Hannen Swaffer. Last year Negro Anderson opened a temperance bar. His followers are planning to build a Temple dedicated to his message, which is simply, "You can do what you want if you believe...
...took notes, observed, wrote. Medium-sized, mustached, with fat stomach, square jaw, Author Maugham lives at Cap Ferrat, France, but travels whenever, wherever, he wishes. During the War he served in the intelligence service, British Army; was stationed in Russia, where bad, meagre food made him ill. Critic Hannen Swaffer once wrote Author Maugham asking him how to pronounce his name. Replied Maugham: "My name rhymes with waugham, as in 'a waugham...