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...From "Winckelmann," an essay on the German art historian and archaeologist. -Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield...
Early in April, Laborite Aneurin Bevan sideswiped a bus at Gerrard's Cross in Beaconsfield, recovered control of his Humber Hawk and sped on. Haled to Beaconsfield to face a magistrate last week, Nye made his feeble excuses: "I realize I should have stopped but I was anxious to avoid . . . publicity." The court brushed the plea aside, slapped a fine of $166.10 (including costs) on Britain's most freewheeling public figure and took away his license for three months...
Died. Arthur Machen, 84, British author; in Beaconsfield, England. Deeply affected by the death of 5,000 British soldiers in the Battle of Mons (1914), he wrote a mystical short story, The Bowmen, which inspired a sincere belief in many Tommies that they had actually seen Saint George and his archers striking down the Germans on the battlefields...
...weekly articles carried tremendous political influence, friend of the mighty (eulogized Winston Churchill: "One of the four or five great figures of the last 100 years of ... journalism"), onetime editor in chief of the Encyclopaedia Britannica; in the house where another great political writer (Edmund Burke) once lived, at Beaconsfield, England...
...person suites at the Beaconsfield and others for four at the Statler comprise the only multiples, while the Commander, located just off the Square, has initiated a dormitory setup...