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William Lamb, Second Viscount Melbourne, was England's last big Whig. In 1939 Lord David Cecil wrote the first part of Lamb's tale, The Young Melbourne, a biography that rated as one of the finest of the decade. Now Author Cecil has finished the job by carrying his story up to Melbourne's death in 1848. The complete book is superb...
Just a few months after he resigned his post of Colonial Secretary in Sir Winston Churchill's Cabinet and was made a viscount, Oliver Lyttelton, 61, who laboriously helped to cope with the Mau Mau problem in Kenya and the Communist problem in Malaya, announced he had selected his new title: Viscount Chandos of Aldershot...
...Viscount Trimingham?" asked little Leo Colston...
Died. William Ewert Berry, first Viscount Camrose, 74, editor in chief and chairman of the Daily Telegraph, largest of Britain's prestige dailies; of a heart attack; in Southampton, England. Welshman Berry and his brother, now Viscount Kemsley, built the world's largest one-family publishing empire (32 newspapers and 74 magazines...
Carmichael found it easy to finance the deal through Vickers since the British are eager to break into the U.S. market. By 1957 Viscounts should completely retire Capital's Constellations and a good part of its fleet of DC-3s and DC-4s. One big advantage: the Viscount can operate from all but three of the 51 fields on Capital's routes, whereas Capital's Constellations cannot operate from 15, and its DC-4s cannot operate from ten. Says Slim Carmichael: "This plane puts us close to the airline operator's ideal. . . . to serve the entire...