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Died. Major General Lionel Charles Dunsterville, 80, prototype of Kipling's cool, Latin-quoting Stalky, and last of the immortal trio* of Stalky & Co., in Torquay, Devonshire. As a full-grown soldier he was still the Kipling hero, in World War I bluffed the Turks out of the Baku oilfields with a handful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 1, 1946 | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

William Heward Murray Walton, tall, lantern-jawed Church of England vicar, and old Japan hand (17 years), onetime editor of the Japanese Christian Quarterly, told a Church conference at Torquay, England that Japan "did more for the literacy education of her people in 60 years than the British in India in 150 years," blamed atrocities primarily on Japanese police who, he claimed, treated their own people the way they are now treating the enemy, admitted that he prayed daily for Japanese Christians, added: "I pray for victory-and the whopping defeat of Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 4, 1944 | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

...Epping (now, happily, First Lord of the Admiralty) may well rejoice that he represented a constituency which TIME did not "mispronounce" (TIME, Sept. 4). The "Tight Little Islanders" from Torquay to Tynemouth pronounce Tewkesbury "Tschewksbry" - but never "Tooksbroo" as TIME'S esteemed Editors point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 25, 1939 | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Recently at Torquay beach, ex-Helmsman Robert Hitchens, now 51, had trouble over another boat. After a quarrel with one Frederick Henley over a little motorboat he shot and pinked Henley. Last week at the Winchester Assizes, Titanic Helmsman Hitchens was sentenced to five years' penal servitude for attempted murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Helmsman Hitchens | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

...Rome, Copenhagen, Havan, Torquay, Warsaw and New Orleans last week a conspiracy began to close in against France. Six nations' tennis teams eliminated six others from the second round of international Davis Cup play. The U. S. defeated Mexico; Australia, Cuba; England, Rumania; Denmark, Jugoslavia; Poland, Holland; Italy, Egypt. The French, defending Davis Cup champions since 1927, were alarmed, but not by numbers. They knew that only three nations had a chance and that at least one new tennis phenomenon must be found to take the Davis Cup away from France. Failing the phenomenal, aging (32) Henri Cochet would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Davis Cup, May 23, 1932 | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

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