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...Joan was slowly starving when "Stitches," the sailmaker, managed to barter a handful of dried apricots and an old alarm clock for a Norfolk Island milch-goat. A year later the good creature was killed by wreckage in a squall, and Joan went on regular sailor's diet: duff pudding once a week, onion bouillon (one onion to a bucket of water), curry and rice, boiled tapioca with pale lavender cornstarch sauce-the Jap colored the food to make it seem tastier than it was. Aged two, Joan could stagger across the deck and yell "goddamned wind" (picked...
Died. James A. Duff, 73, light opera impresario; of apoplexy; in Manhattan. In the '70s Mr. Duff brought to the U. S. a score of H. M. S. Pinafore for which he paid a few shillings in England, overcame reluctant managers, instigated the Gilbert & Sullivan racket...
...President, Mr. Wm. M. Duff, in talking about reading the right kind of books, papers, magazines, etc., mentioned especially TIME. I (Continued on p. 29) personally remarked that I had been an original subscriber. We asked for a call of hands and found that fourteen of the twenty-seven are subscribers to your magazine and everyone was very enthusiastic in his endorsement. C. J. WESTERMANN...
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin promoted to rank at the tail* of his Cabinet, last week, seven of those "coming" young Conservative M. P.'s who are known in the House of Commons as the "ginger group." Among the promoted only Captain Alfred Duff Cooper, dashing husband of Lady Diana (The Miracle) Manners is well known in the U. S. He was stepped up to Financial Secretary of the War Office...
...Opposition kept Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain continually on the grill, answering questions which disputed the veracity of the official British- version of events at Nanking (TIME, April 4) when Chinese rioted and U. S. and British gunboats shelled the city. Finally, in the House of Commons, Captain Duff-Cooper (Conservative) asked Sir Austen whether he knew that the Labor weekly, published by George Lansbury, M. P. (Opposition) had actually declared that the members of the Baldwin Cabinet are collectively responsible for the loss of life at Nanking. "So they are!" shouted Mr. Lansbury. "What I said in type...