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...Club, along Pall Mall and at every officers' mess in the British Empire, there was but one consuming topic of conversation last week. The new young Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden might not be doing much at the moment (see col. 3), but the new young War Secretary Alfred Duff Cooper had just signed the most drastic reorganization order the British Army has ever received. In effect this Mayfair scion, whose famed wife Lady Diana Manners played The Virgin in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle, ordered: "No more cavalry...
...lives of even Bengal Lancers are soon to reek of gasoline & grease, handsome young War Secretary Alfred Duff Cooper had nevertheless done the best he could for his cavalry friends. He might have enlarged His Majesty's existing Tank Corps and other highly developed mechanized units gradually, while disbanding little by little the men on horseback. Instead, the horse cavalry are to dismount and step aboard machines, keeping their jobs and becoming mechanized cavalry. In the humble opinion of British technicians who today comprise the Tank Corps, it is going to be a rare sight to behold the horsy...
...TIME, July 22, under Religion, you have quoted Chaplain Edward Aloysius Duff as follows: "By actual count and statistics, a larger proportion of Navy men and officers attend church on ship and on shore than do men in civilian life." Chaplain Duff fails to mention that neither the 1,700 midshipmen at the Naval Academy nor the recruits at the various training stations have any choice in the matter of churchgoing. They go whether they want to or not. This accounts for a large proportion of the percentage of piety of the Navy. I have never observed any large church...
Methodists. Congregationalists, Episcopalians have taken their turns at being head chaplain of the U. S. Navy, but not until this week did a Roman Catholic get the job. Appointed to succeed Captain Sydney K. Evans, Episcopalian, was Captain Edward Aloysius Duff, 50, of Philadelphia. Jovial, round-faced Father Duff, 20 years a chaplain on battleships and in Xavy yards, will sit at a desk in Washington, direct the spiritual welfare of 85,000 officers & men. Says he: "By actual count and statistics, a larger proportion of Navy men and officers attend church on ship and on shore than...
Died. Lady Duff-Gordon (Lucy Sutherland) 71. famed dress designer, long-time president of Lucile Ltd. (now defunct), Titanic survivor, sister of Novelist Elinor Glyn; after six months' illness; in London. She was credited with the first split skirt, first manikin show, first application of the word chic to clothes. A poor businesswoman, she once told a recorder in bankruptcy that she did not know what a share of stock...