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Unhappily, such matters are not well taught at Harrow and Sandhurst, where 41-year-old Brigadier Derek Schreiber, chief of staff to the Governor-General (H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester) was educated. When the Brigadier married fashionable Viscountess Clive last fall his valet, ex-Corporal Ernest Cyril Field, persuaded himself that the marriage would mean an increase in his duties. He asked for a raise. Schreiber declined, Field departed...
Lady Astor, the House of Commons' uppity, downright, Virginia-born viscountess, vowed that not even V-E day would wean her from teetotalism: "Sometimes I am tempted, but I do not fall...
...front, there was the most representative Anglo-American audience ever gathered under one roof in Britain. Impeccable Anthony Eden was there, and Mr. & Mrs. Clement Atlee. Viscount Camrose received in the royal box, along with Viscount Trenchard, president of the American & British Commonwealth Association. Viscount and Viscountess Simon came in, also Sir Andrew and Lady Cunningham, Sir Charles and Lady Portal, Sir Alan and Lady Brooke. The U.S. was represented by Ambassador John G. Winant, and its soldiery...
Tart-tongued, opinionated Lady Astor made news last week: she publicly spoke up for Russian Communism. Said the Virginia-born viscountess to assembled correspondents interviewing her on the 25th anniversary of her parliamentary career: "Communism in Russia has taught the people to read. A people can't think or reach God until they learn to read. I don't dislike Russian Communism. It has changed the European policy of keeping the people poor and ignorant-look at Spain and Italy...
...Viscountess Astor accepted a challenge at a U.S. Army camp in Britain, told a bunch of dialect stories to the troops, presently struggled away with a prize...