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Miss HARRIET TOWNSHEND (287 pp.)-Kathleen Norris-Doubleday...
...Turkish brigade (5,000 men) is led by Brigadier General Tahsin Yazici, who likes to twit British war correspondents with such remarks as, "Yes, I remember your General Townshend well. We took him prisoner at Kut-el-Amara [in 1916]." Last week Yazici's smart, tightly disciplined Turks were thrown in to hold the line the R.O.K.s abandoned east of Kaechon. Estimated Turkish casualties at week's end: 500. A U.S. doctor said it seemed that a Turk waited until he had at least three wounds before he reported to the medics...
...Somebody" turned out to be Shaw, who married Miss Charlotte F. Payne-Townshend two years later. * Fabian Clement Attlee did his hero too much honor last week when, in a debate over whether the title "World War II" implied an inevitable World War III, Attlee told the House of Commons (most of whose members had known better since they were fifth formers): "As far as I know, there was a First and Second Punic War but not a third...
...Townshend J. Knight '49--Betty Eames (Winsor...
...Alfred Townshend Johnson...