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...towering (6 ft. 4 in.) Slim Carmichael the Vickers-Armstrongs Viscount seemed custom-made for Capital. It is powered by four Rolls-Royce turboprops (i.e., gas-turbine engines that drive propellers), can carry 48 passengers at a cruising speed of 335 m.p.h. In service with British European Airways, Air France and Air Lingus, the Viscount has proved an economical operator over medium-distance routes such as Capital has from New York and Washington to the Midwest. On European routes its vibration-free performance and relative silence have lured many a traveler from piston-engine planes. While operating cost per hour...
...case. He could not produce the purported original of the letter (it was in the hands of a shadowy, last-ditch Fascist living in Switzerland, who has had little luck in many attempts to peddle such letters to Italian journalists) De Gasperi's lawyers flourished a communication from Viscount Alexander, the Allies' wartime commander in Italy, who said "all that is written in the alleged letter does not agree with what I remember." They also produced a communication from the supposed recipient, Lieut. Colonel A. D. Bonham Carter, who said he had never received such a letter...
...international rugby match in Paris' Colombes Stadium, Britain's Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery was caught by the photographers giving a patriotic war whoop as England's team scored a three-point try against France. But Monty's joy was short-lived: the Frenchmen went on to win the game, 11 to 3, and tie with England and Wales for the tournament championship...
Died. Sir John Allsebrook Simon, 1st Viscount Simon, 80, veteran British lawyer-statesman. Foreign Secretary under Ramsay MacDonald (1931-35), Neville Chamberlain's Chancellor of the Exchequer (1937-40), who, in his memoirs, published in 1952, stoutly defended the "essential Tightness" of the 1938 Munich pact with the Axis; in London...
Died. Alfred Duff Cooper, Viscount Norwich, 63, British statesman-author; of a heart attack; aboard the French cruise ship Colombie, off Vigo, Spain. Educated at Eton and Oxford, he won the D.S.O. in World War I as an officer of the Grenadier Guards, came home to marry Britain's reigning beauty, Lady Diana Manners, over the objections of her father, the Duke of Rutland. Entering Parliament in 1924, Duff Cooper turned out a brace of authoritative biographies (Talleyrand, Haig), became Secretary for War under Conservative Stanley Baldwin (1935-37), was assailed as a "disgraceful scaremonger" for urging rearmament against...