Word: wellington
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...hammock reading, and no more. But except for a few writing tricks, and a display of erudition, no summer reader would recognize it as the work of the man who wrote World War I's bitter Death of a Hero, or that first-rate biography of Wellington, The Duke...
...Frederic Wellington...
Died. George Arliss (real name: George Augustus Andrews), 77, actor and cinemactor who was responsible for the general misapprehension that Disraeli, Richelieu, Voltaire, Wellington and Hamilton bore an astonishing facial resemblance to one another; of a bronchial ailment; in London...
...come a long way. Last week the errand boy from Broken Hill, who entered Australian politics at 19, was host at a dinner for his fellow UNO leaders at the swank Savoy in London. Russia's terrifying Vishinsky was gaily talkative on his right, and China's Wellington Koo suavely quiet on his left...
...epitaph of England's great Christopher Wren in St. Paul's Cathedral, his architectural monument. The monument is not Wren's alone: within the high-domed, Italianate majesty of St. Paul's on London's Ludgate Hill lie British immortals Nelson, Wellington and Jellicoe. Transepts and chapels bulge with toga-ed statues to admirals of the fleet, generals of the line, with monuments to famous victories...