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Slang-hardened American flyers have been fascinated by "pukka gen," which means honest-to-God authoritative information. "Duff gen" is a wrong steer...
...Conservative party leader in Ontario province, hadn't been talking through his hat. The charges he made were twofold: 1) that the 2,000 Canadian soldiers sent to Hong Kong and promptly killed or captured had been miserably undertrained and tragically underequipped; 2) that Chief Justice Sir Lyman Duff, acting as a royal commission, had absolved those responsible...
Lord MacMillan was dull. Sir John Reith was dour. Alfred Duff Cooper was social. Then into the British Ministry of Information came red-haired Brendan Bracken, young (41), quick-witted protege of Winston Churchill...
Into her majority and with it some $3,900,000 came Brenda Diana Duff Frazier Kelly, onetime queen of the Manhattan glamor debs, now queen of a triplex apartment with Husband John ("Shipwreck") Kelly. Last week at least two of the newspapers that used to publicize all her doings in café society published the fact that her chief interest now, besides keeping house, is "having a family...
...eventuality." > "We are in a position to handle any war situation that may arise." > "As long as we are awake and Japan sees it. I think the situation will remain as it is." > "We have had plenty of warning and our preparations are made and tested."* By contrast, Minister Duff Cooper's first statement was neither sweet nor soothing: "Let us not blind ourselves to the gravity of the situation or the seriousness of the task that awaits us. Let us frankly admit that so far the Japanese have been extremely successful." The Japanese were alarmingly successful: 1) Britain...