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...17th Duke of Alba de Tormes, Spain's wartime ambassador to the Court of St. James's; after long illness; in Lausanne, Switzerland. Grandest of Spain's grandees, he owned castles in almost every major city, had some 65 titles, including that of Duke of Berwick (a Stuart title not recognized by Britain). When civil war broke out in 1936, the Anglophile Duke sought to swing Britain to Franco's cause. After World War II, he disputed Franco's right to rule, favoring a return to monarchy, but, too powerful to be exiled, returned...
...Wallace, Miller has been brushing against Digest people since his cub-reporter days on the Cleveland Press, when he met their researchers burrowing among the Cleveland Public Library's stacks. When Miller joined me in the Office of War Information in 1943, he first worked for Adrian Berwick, now an editor of the Digest overseas editions. Later Miller kept meeting other Digest people in Egypt, Italy, Marseille and Istanbul, among them two roving editors. Moving to Chappaqua after the war, Miller found the Digest there, too. When he became acquainted with his next-door neighbor, Miller discovered his wife...
...week's end, before the Scottish Labor Party conference at North Berwick, Attlee pleaded for party unity (later in the week, Bevan promised to "close ranks," support the government during the campaign). Attlee decried his Conservative opponent Winston Churchill as "a very old-fashioned politician...
Quick Dryer. The Wood Electric Kiln Co. of North Berwick, Me. demonstrated a time-saving electronic kiln for drying green lumber. By using kiln-drying combined with high-frequency radiation, lumber in Wood's kiln can be dried in as little as 15 hours, instead of the seven to eight days needed in the present steam-heated type kilns...
...week by the Army Ordnance Department. From Detroit, where the staff of the tank arsenal runs the show for automotive ordnance, contracts went out for tank-type vehicles of the same family as the new light tank to be built by Cadillac (TIME, July 31). American Car & Foundry Co. (Berwick, Pa.) and the Massey-Harris Co. (Racine, Wis.) will build howitzer carriages, the International Harvester Co. (Melrose Park, Ill.) armament personnel carriers, and the Pacific Car & Foundry Co. (Renton, Wash.) gun motor carriages...