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...island caves with the seamews and the puffins. Reason for the exodus: St. Kilda's new owner, the Marquess of Ailsa and the British Labor Government had both decided that bleak St. Kilda is unfit for human habitation. Said Lord Ailsa's son, Archibald Kennedy, Earl of Cassillis...
...Lord Chamberlain, whose critical standards are considerably more sociological than those of the Manhattan constabulary. Last Spring The Green Pastures was denied the right of British production. Reason: since God is impersonated on the stage, the play is sacrilegious (TIME, June 30). Last week the same censor, the Earl of Cromer, announced that The Last Mile, successful death-house melodrama, might not be presented in Great Britain. Reason: it was "too tense," it was "such an indictment against capital punishment...
When these essays were recently published in England, J. B. S. Haldane, who had previously written on the subject, recognized 44 passages as his own, rebuked the Earl (TIME, June 2). The latter admitted that there was some truth in the comment, sales jumped, and now the book appears in the U. S., a brain-child of truly distinguished parentage...
...laboratory-made by ectogenetic methods, leaving governments free to design their subjects, women free to run the governments. The higher reaches of statecraft, however, and of the arts as well, will still be the province of males, who will relax in foxhunting and horse-racing, sports which the Earl, with true British acumen, finds will continue. War unfortunately will persist, but in a more humane form, conducted largely by amphibian tanks, perhaps radio-controlled. If the molecular engine is devised, airplanes will supersede all other vehicles, decentralizing all activities, including industry?and here the Earl makes several bows to Henry...
...Author. Rt. Hon. the Earl of Birkenhead, P.C., G.C.S.I, D.C.L., LL.D., D.Litt., onetime (1922) High Steward of Oxford University, Rector of Aberdeen University (1926) and Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (1919-22), has often lacked money but never self-possession. As all England knows he was born Frederick Edwin Smith and his first title was "Galloper," which friends and others still apply. Eloquence and legal brilliance carried him to the highest honor of the Law, thence to politics. Both Liberals and Conservatives respected his abilities but mistrusted his policies, as did all England. Chronic indebtedness finally compelled his retirement...