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Everybody's Secrets. One day last week at teatime, Nasser's government rounded up two Britons and half a dozen Egyptians. Shortly thereafter, the Egyptian information chief announced that the two Englishmen-James Swinburn, 51, of the British-owned Arab News Agency and Charles Pittuck, 47, of the Marconi Radio & Telegraph Co. had made a "complete confession." According to the government spokesman, Swinburn headed "a dangerous espionage ring which worked for British intelligence and supplied it with information about the Egyptian armed forces." Swinburn's cook had told all, and Swinburn had been arrested just...
...Swinburn's "ring," said the government spokesman, had reported to two British embassy first secretaries-John G. Gove and James B. Flux. The diplomats were given 72 hours to leave the country. (The British Foreign Office promptly declared that two officials of parallel status in Egypt's London embassy were persona non grata...
Standing Offer. In Chicago, Orthopedic Appliances Salesman W. H. Swinburn reported the theft of two artificial legs from his automobile, offered, if the thief really needed the legs, to fit them free of charge...
...substitute for religion and boy friends, she turned to Swinburn's poetry. Youngest son Frank, although his father's pet, was addicted to melancholy, once burst out: "Nobody loves me in my own house." There was friction between her parents, though it was oblique or hidden. A characteristic tiff came about when Mrs. Thomas, inspired by Tolstoi's My Religion, began giving handouts to any and all beggars. Said Dr. Thomas at last: "I admire Tolstoi in many ways, but he has no common sense, and he lives in the country...
...velvet mask of bending night Sparkles with the sky's pale bloom," (!) is characterized by indeterminate Swinburnian sensousness with nothing of Swinburn's euphony. Mr. Norris easily surpasses the other poets. His "My Memories" is a charming trifle, while "Life" has pleasing metrical treatment and genuine simplicity of phrase