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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hyde Park for the week end, Vestryman Roosevelt attended a special service at St. James' Episcopal Church. The President had brought with him from Washington a Bible (King James version), a gift to the church from the King and Queen of England in remembrance of the Sunday last June when they worshipped there with Mr. Roosevelt. Lacking an appropriate passage in the prayer book of the U. S. Episcopal Church, the Reverend Frank R. Wilson read from an English Book of Common Prayer: "O Lord, most heartily we beseech Thee, with Thy favor to behold Thy most gracious sovereign...
Fiercely, repeatedly the British denied their Repulse was hit. Seaman Vincent Marchant, who managed to get overside from Royal Oak and swim ashore through the tons of oil which cloyed and dragged down others, tended to corroborate Prien's 30-second version as against the Admiralty's 2O-minute one. Marchant's story seemed to refute Prien's belief that he hit Repulse. Marchant told of four hits on Royal Oak. After the first explosion, he just had time to get from his hammock to the deck. Then followed the second, third and fourth blasts. Evidently...
...British Admiralty chief. He said Mr. Anderson "proved" that Mr. Churchill had the Athenia blown up with a bomb set off aboard at a wireless signal, later had destroyers finish the job. Direct translation of his remarks in German (which were toned down, as customary, in an official English version) read: "That was how you planned it, wasn't it, Mr. Churchill? That was how it was carried out also and then!-then this God-damned American citizen Anderson came along and uncovered your whole scheme...
...house for weeks, the play's wit is as gleamingly cutthroat as its antics are gorgeously custard-pie. The identity of the lecturer is as open a secret as the fact that George Eliot was a woman. Lecturer Sheridan Whiteside (Monty Woolley) is an unexpurgated version of Alexander Woollcott, who has been a friend of the authors' as long as he has been a legend of the literary world. They originally created Sheridan Whiteside as a part for Woollcott. He refused to play it because he had to lecture in real life, but he will probably...
Whichever way it came at them, the staid Carnegie Hall audience liked Composer Weinberger's version as much as King George had enjoyed the original...