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Lumping It. Some of Britain's peers, seething with righteous indignation, were for taking action themselves. "We cannot afford to have clowns in gaiters in the Church of England," cried Tory Viscount Hailsham. "The Dean has borne false witness not only against his neighbor but against his country and his country's friends," added aged Liberal Lord Teviot. The Marquess of Salisbury, Leader of the House of Lords, agreed that the church cannot proceed against the Red Dean ("he has not been drunk in the pulpit . . . and he has not been guilty of flagrant immorality"); he considered...
...duchy passed on to Nelson's heirs; in 1937, it fell to the present modest and serious viscount, Rowland Arthur Herbert Nelson Hood, descended from the families of three British naval greats-Nelson, Hood and Hood's brother, Lord Bridport. A seaman like his ancestors, the present Lord Bridport went to the naval training college at Dartmouth, was a midshipman aboard H.M.S. Nelson for three years, fought as a lieutenant commander in World War II. Mussolini confiscated his duchy during the war, but Lord Bridport got it back and returned...
...parceling out 4,500 acres of Bronte to 650 peasant families on easy-to-pay-installment plans or cheap 99-year leases. The Archbishop of Catania came down to give the church's blessing to the transfer. The local carabinieri staged a joyful military drill. The viscount, a tall, blue-eyed man of 41, happily signed the necessary papers. "This is a reward for the honest and solid work of those who for years have given their best," he said. "Simply an act of humanity...
...last week, when he turned to the 70 high-ranking officers of NATO's 14-nation armies and made the announcement. "I do not want this to go out of the room," he said. For a moment there was complete silence. Then Britain's temperamental Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery delivered an impromptu eulogy, wound up by locking Ike in an affectionate bear hug, while the others roared, cheered and dabbed at their eyes. Ike broke away and started for the door. At the doorway he paused and clasped his hands over his head in a prizefighter...
...After Churchill named Viscount Alexander of Tunis as British Minister of Defense, the post of Canada's Governor General was filled by a famous actor's brother...