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Fresh from a trip to Washington, D. C., during which he talked personally with President Roosevelt and Viscount Halifax, Edward Ames '42, president of the Harvard Liberal Union, yesterday outlined plans for a British was relief drive designed to be greater in scope than all previous drives...
Died. Second Lieut. Charles Standish Vereker, 29, only son and heir of Viscount Gort (former Commander of the British Field Force), one of the last officers to evacuate Dunkirk last June; by his own hand, "while the balance of his mind was disturbed"; in Dorset, England...
Next to a good reliable ghost, a Family Curse is one of the most hallowed appurtenances of British nobility. Last week a fine old Family Curse made a fine news story. Twenty-year-old Viscount Lambton, son and heir of the 5th Earl of Durham, lay dead by "suicide while of unsound mind," according to a coroner's jury. The folk of Northumberland knew that the Curse of the Worm had struck again...
Dormant for centuries, the Curse of the Worm is apparently regaining power. The suicidal Viscount's uncle was killed in World War I. One cousin disappeared from a liner, another died in a car smash. Two years ago his grandmother was killed by a fall. When he was ten, young Lambton himself disappeared mysteriously for several days. One night last week servants heard the Viscount in the kitchen cooking his usual midnight snack of ham & eggs. Next morning they found him sprawled in a fountain on the castle lawn, his brains blown out by a charge from...
...Gerald's job will be to exchange humorous remarks with Franklin Roosevelt and do much of the important work that ordinarily falls to the British Ambassador. The industrious Viscount, who will go to the U. S. taking as his confidential adviser Sir Charles Peake, head of the British Foreign Office News Department, will apply himself to learning the ropes of Washington and act as a sort of super-Ambassador. Sir Gerald was given the rank of senior British Minister to Washington. A junior British Minister was also appointed in the knowing person of Mr. Nevile Butler, able Counselor...