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...stories for children, especially for one book of verses, When We Were Very Young. He says he has written his last children's story. Before the War an editor of Punch, after his four years in the Royal Warwickshires he decided to freelance, try his hand at plays. The Dover Road and Mr. Pim Passes By were his most successful. Author Milne has never been in the U. S. Slim, fair, he has "one wife, one son, one house, one recreation?golf." He smokes a pipe. He is tired of being known as "whimsical." Other books: The Red House Mystery...
...Antwerp shipyard last week went three-year-old Princess Josephine Charlotte, daughter of handsome dark-haired Crown Prince Leopold and Princess Astrid, to launch the S.S. Princess Josephine Charlotte, a new Channel steamer for the Dover-Ostend run. Since a champagne bottle would have been, unwieldy for her diminutive Highness, thoughtful company officials tied a bright pink ribbon from the ship's prow to the launching platform. At the appropriate moment Princess Josephine Charlotte toddled to the edge of the platform, snipped the ribbon with a tiny pair of gold-plated scissors. The steamer slid majestically into the water...
...usual "March Blizzard" tucked south-east England under a twelve-inch snow blanket last week, stopped air services to the Continent, forced the Admiralty to keep coastal guns firing at Dover, because above the screech of the gale ordinary fog signals could not be heard...
...Channel Tunnel. In 1875 tne Gunnel Tunnel Co. (still in existence) was organized. Queen Victoria spurred the idea by announcing: "All the women of England will bless the builder of the tunnel for saving them from seasickness," Preliminary borings were actually started. From the chalk cliffs of Dover and from the French shore near Sangatte, mile-long galleries were driven out under the Channel floor. Proving the theory of Engineer de Gamond that the Dover chalk beds run out under the Channel, these abandoned galleries are still bone dry, impervious, free from fissures...
Adam Fenwick-Symes has just finished his autobiography in Paris and is bringing it home, but the manuscript is confiscated by the authorities in Dover as obscene. So he becomes a society-gossip writer for a London newspaper: his column, getting more and more imaginative, becomes more and more successful until one day he goes too far. Then he lives on credit, and on the hopes of collecting ?35,000 which a drunken major wins for him on a horse race. He and the major occasionally meet but always lose each other before the money can change hands. Adam...