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Newsgatherers noting the growing popularity of knitting as a pastime for men in British society admired the handiwork of other noble needlemen-a handsome jumper by the Right Honorable the Earl of Harewood (formerly Viscount Lascelles, spouse of Princess Mary); scarves and mufflers by Baron Gainford, vice-chairman of the British Broadcasting Co., Ltd., and Baron Holmpatrick, famed Cavalryman...
Fifth son of the late Earl of Crawford, tall Sir Ronald is high in chivalry, can match order for order with the present British Ambassador at Washington, courtly Sir Esme Howard. Both are Knights Commander of the Bath, both are Knights Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George, both have an imposing row of subsidiary ribbons to blazon their lapels. Of interest to Washington diners-out is the fact that unlike Sir Esme Howard, Sir Ronald Lindsay is not a teetotaler, will almost certainly abolish the rule against the importation of embassy liquor...
...scandal of all England the Earl of Birkenhead when Lord Chancellor occasionally rested his foot on the august woolsack...
...House of Lords, the big, sharp-tongued Earl of Birkenhead, Secretary of State for India in the late Baldwin Cabinet, sneered that the Labor Government "have mishandled the Indian situation in every conceivable way at every conceivable stage. . . . They have been frightened by the threats of Indian extremists. . . . Their explanations of what they have done have been confused and mutually inconsistent...
...Lewis was one of jazz's first jazzbos. He was playing the clarinet crazily in Earl Fuller's band in Rector's restaurant, Manhattan, when he began to make money. Until then his antics had always got him into trouble. His father made a good living running the ladies bargain store in Circleville, Ohio. Young Lewis went over to Chillicothe in the street car every night to play in the high school band. Of Hebrew descent, he joined the Episcopal church to sing in the choir next to a girl he liked. He was discharged from Henry...