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Died. Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry, 70, British coal tycoon and onetime Secretary of State for Air (1931-35) who said in 1938: "Close cooperation with Germany will bring about lasting peace . . ." (he visited Hitler, Göring, Ribbentrop) ; of a head injury suffered four years ago in a glider crash; in Newtownards, Northern Ireland. A longtime supporter of Chamberlain until after Munich, Londonderry later campaigned for increased British air strength, won praise for having helped develop Britain's Spitfire and Hurricane fighter planes...
...teapot tempest? One nervous Delhi churchman said: "It is a symptom of a subtle attempt to put Mahatma Gandhi-for whom, mind you, I have the greatest respect-on the same pedestal as our Lord Jesus Christ...
...whose History of Rome Hanks stirred up violent opinions in 1944. "Naturally I hope my new book, Nora Beckham, will have as much success as my first," he confided to Reporter Jim Goodsell for the Portland Oregonian. "But I won't mind if it creates less of a tempest. It was a little unnerving to be compared, all in one week, with Thomas Wolfe, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, and Judas Iscariot...
...show is a gentlemanly one, it will probably be a strongly Republican one as well. Saltonstall slaughtered Corcoran in 1944, and apparently neither the miraculous vote-pulling ability of the Senator nor the national Republican tempest have abated...
Temper & Trash. The man who wrote the copy and stirred up the teapot tempest is smart, free-speaking Elliott White Springs, 51, president of South Carolina's Springs Mills (and of seven other textile companies, three banks and a railroad), and an old hand at stirring up excitement...