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...week's end the choice had been made. The next British Ambassador to Washington will be Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Viscount Halifax, 59, since 1938 Britain's Foreign Secretary...
...interested in a richly tooled cover than in a succulent footnote or limpid trochee. It was founded in 1884 by craftsmen and wealthy collectors to improve the then wretched state of U. S. bookmaking. Its name commemorates a great 16th-Century connoisseur of covers & colophons, Jean Grolier de Servier. Viscount d'Aguisy...
...join Answers as business manager. Alfred had the editorial brains, Harold knew shillings & pence. In six years, from their profits, they were able to buy a struggling London daily, the Evening News, and put it on its feet. Then they founded the Daily Mail. In 1917 Alfred was created Viscount Northcliffe, two years later Harold became Viscount Rothermere...
Down a deserted London street marched bluff old Air Marshal Hugh Montague, Viscount ("Boom") Trenchard, onetime chief of Scotland Yard. As he reached the corner, a bobby saluted cordially, informed him he had just walked over a time bomb. "Why didn't you stop me?" roared Lord Trenchard. "Oh, we recognized you, sir," replied the policeman...
...Died. Viscount Craigavon, 69, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland since the Ulster Government's establishment in 1920, implacable foe of Irish independence for more than 30 years; at his country house near Belfast. Famed alike for his bluntly uttered opinions and his fierce disregard of metaphorical discipline, once he roared: "The naked sword is drawn for the fight, and, gentlemen, never again will the black smoke of Nationalist tar barrels drift on the Home Rule wind to darken the hearts of Englishmen...