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...Peerage: "It really shakes me. A most unfortunate innovation-something -which may result in peers becoming confused wuh American band leaders like Duke Ellington an Count Basic." Nevertheless, there have been previous one-name earldoms: Earl Jowitt, Earl Haig. Attlee's son and heir will be Viscount Prestwood of Walthamstow (Attlee's constituency since...
...civilian Ministry of Supply. Lacking expert knowledge of R.A.F. and airline needs, the supplymen frequently let political and economical considerations weigh too heavily. "Beyond that, the planemakers themselves are slow to improve production methods, have antiquated plants, e.g., for a long time Vickers virtually hand-built its prize Viscount airliner (TIME, Jan. 3) in converted hangars...
...most interesting visitor of the week was Britain's famed Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, who stormed Fitzsimons Army Hospital in a gorgeously gaudy uniform, with 38 ribbons in ten rows...
Field Marshal the Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, Deputy Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers in Europe, will present his views on organization and forces for modern war at the University's Defense Policy Seminar...
...nobleman wrote Vicki: "I am prepared to plug anything from Coca-Cola, which I don't drink, to the Democratic Party, though I prefer the Republican, and can be sour or sweet, bellicose or pacific, to order." Lord Scarsdale, 57, of the famed Curzon family, a 2nd Viscount, 6th Baron and loth Baronet all in one, enclosed a pamphlet with his job application, detailing the glories of his ancestral home, Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire. Not counting those with hyphenated names claiming to be direct descendants of William the Conqueror ("If they don't give their background...