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Died. Field Marshal Earl Wavell, 67, Viscount Wavell of Cyrenaica and Winchester, onetime (1943-47) Viceroy of India, author (Allenby: A Study in Greatness), poet, historian and scholar; after an abdominal operation; in London. Taciturn, one-eyed Field Marshal Wavell mastered desert fighting under the late great Field Marshal Viscount Allenby, horse-cavalry victor of the 1917-18 Palestine campaign; as commander in chief in the Middle East, Wavell smashed Graziani's Italian army during the 1940 North African campaign; after suffering major reverses in Greece and Crete, he was transferred to India (1941), where he organized the defense...
...frequently high where journalistic quality is low. Thus the sin-and-crime-loving London Daily Mirror tops 4,000,000 copies a day, while the respected Manchester Guardian sells a mere 160,000 and the famed London Times only 280,000. One happy exception to the rule is Viscount Camrose's London Daily Telegraph, whose circulation of 981,566 makes it the world's largest quality newspaper. Most of the Telegraph's readers on both sides of the Atlantic (it has 600 U.S. subscribers) consider its all-round news coverage about the best in Britain...
...brother, Viscount Kemsley, 66, publishes 42 dailies and weeklies...
...tailor who successfully woos a princess has the light directorial touch of Rouben Mamoulian and some superb Rodgers and Hart songs, including "Isn't it Romantic," "Mimi," and the immortal "Lover." C. Aubrey Smith and Myrna Loy are featured players, along with Charlie Ruggles as a flat broke viscount and Charlie Butterworth, that incomparable old-school comedian, as Chevalier's and eyed rival for Miss MacDonald's hand. "One Hour With You," on Ernst Lubitsch production is also an extremely pleasant bit of fluff...
...brief visit to the U.S., Britain's Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery (see INTERNATIONAL) got his first whiff of the ubiquitous U.S. columnists. As Montgomery sailed from Manhattan last week, ship newsmen asked him about Columnist Drew Pearson's story on Monty's conferences with U.S. Chief of Staff Omar Bradley and others. Pearson reported that Monty had urged Bradley to rearm Germany. Up went Monty's eyebrows. "What in the world is a columnist?" he asked in bewilderment. "How did he know that? ... I didn't know this chap was in the room...