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Died. Alfred Duff Cooper, Viscount Norwich, 63, British statesman-author; of a heart attack; aboard the French cruise ship Colombie, off Vigo, Spain. Educated at Eton and Oxford, he won the D.S.O. in World War I as an officer of the Grenadier Guards, came home to marry Britain's reigning beauty, Lady Diana Manners, over the objections of her father, the Duke of Rutland. Entering Parliament in 1924, Duff Cooper turned out a brace of authoritative biographies (Talleyrand, Haig), became Secretary for War under Conservative Stanley Baldwin (1935-37), was assailed as a "disgraceful scaremonger" for urging rearmament against...
...upon the Argentine scene in many a day is a ten-year-old Spanish boy called El Galleguito (the little Galician). El Galleguito arrived in Buenos Aires last May as a stowaway aboard the liner Yapeyu, expecting to find an earthly paradise; Argentine seamen in the Spanish port of Vigo, where the boy led a catch-as-catch-can existence begging and running errands, had filled his ear with wondrous tales of their homeland. Argentine immigration authorities were not so encouraging, planned to send El Galleguito back to Spain. But a few weeks ago somebody helped him write a letter...
...anti-socialist too." The Rev. Dr. Vigo Auguste Demant, 56, Canon of Christ Church in Oxford, thus predicted the public reaction to his series of eight 40-minute lectures over the BBC's uncompromisingly highbrow Third Program. Last week, as the series ended, Canon Demant had made such a hit that the BBC was planning to put him on its middlebrow Home Service next fall...
...both American and foreign, would, in any ordinary year, be on a ten-best list; there were also some unusually good tries, and some well-made minor pictures. The French Zero De Conduite, a weird, anarchic comedy about schoolboys, was made 14 years ago by the late, inspired Jean Vigo. First shown in the U.S. last summer, it was a box-office flop. But it was one of the most original movies ever made. Dudley Nichols' desire to make a great tragic film was as laudable as his idea of how to go about it (filming O'Neill...
...course "most wished for" by last June's graduates, who are now serving at depots and other stations, will be inaugurated for cadets Monday. Vigo G. Nielsen, instructor in Business Administration will conduct a series of nine lectures on Civilian Personnel at Military Detachments as a part of the Quartermaster Administration course for all terms. Last fall Nielsen directed a similar series of lectures for the class which is now at Camp Lee, and he regularly instructs Personnel courses at the school...