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...gaunt, grimy London suburb last week George Johnson Armstrong died by hanging, the first Briton executed as a traitor in World War II. A 39-year-old ship's engineer, he was charged with offering his services as a spy to the German Consul in Boston. With him were hung three alien spies. Another Briton, a woman, sentenced to hang at the same time, had her sentence commuted to 14 years imprisonment...
...goateed, salt-&-peppery Sir Thomas Beecham, struck up with the CBS Symphony. His tangiest item was a seldom-played piano concerto, the only one written by England's late, blind Frederick Delius, who once lived in Florida. At the keyboard in the concerto was a third Briton: pretty, blonde Betty Humby, 33, who has supported herself by expert piano-playing since she was a child...
Sporting Peer. With Hess incommunicado "somewhere in Great Britain," reading detective stories, eating better than many a Briton, talking to Government officials and Foreign Office-man Ivone Kirkpatrick, the press turned much attention on the Duke of Hamilton...
...Nazi leader had been looking for an influential Briton to get the Government's ear for him, Dungavel was hardly the right address. The Duke was away on active service, and his prominence has come mostly in sporting papers and gossip columns...
Protesting against "the levity and lesemajestè" of an editorial in the London Times about the late King George V's spelling, an eminent Briton whose notions are always news wrote a letter to The Thunderer...