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Like any proper British officer, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of El Alamein has a passing tactical knowledge of the Battle of Gettysburg. But for West Pointer Dwight Eisenhower, the Confederacy's high-water mark holds more than passing fascination. Ike first refought Gettysburg 40 years ago while stationed at nearby Camp Colt as a tank-corps captain. He has fought it since from his farm close by the field where the Confederates made their final desperate charge. Last week, carrying out a three-year promise, he took Old Comrade in Arms Montgomery out to fight it again...
...answer, crusty Viscount Cherwell, famed physicist and Churchill's chief scientific adviser during World War II, scathingly denounced the protesters as "hysterical people." Said Cherwell: "This sort of thing has become particularly obnoxious since universally respected figures such as the Pope and Dr. Schweitzer have been persuaded to intervene. How they can allow themselves to be taken in by the inaccurate propaganda of the friends of Russia is hard to understand." The facts are, said Cherwell, that "the number of gamma rays we get from the radioactive materials in the walls of our houses is 50 times greater than...
Gerald Cowley Holcombe, Viscount Manningford, and Peter Savage are turn-of-the-century pals at Cambridge. Gerry is the gracious son of an earl and Peter is a steely-eyed child of fortune. Peter does his first serious social climbing on a Swiss Alp when he seduces Gerry's well-heeled, well-built girl friend Emily on "the steep slope above the Zmuttbach.'' Married and shortly in receipt of Gerry's gentlemanly blessing ("the best man won"), the couple head for the Punjab and Peter's civil-service duties...
...brother Gwilym Lloyd-George (the only member of the family who hypbenates) slipped away from the Liberals to join forces with the Tories in 1951, now sits in the House of Lords as Viscount Tenby of Bulford. Megan's elder brother, Richard, who inherited his father's peerage as Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, rarely attends the House of Lords and says, "I'm thankful I'm not a politician...
...rich transcontinental traffic. By last year Continental's annual revenues had quadrupled since 1947 to $18.5 million. To its present 31 planes (ranging from two DC-7Bs to 15 DC-3s) it plans to add 22 new ones by 1959, a $62 million order that includes 15 Vickers Viscount propjets, four Boeing 707 turbojets...