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...talked about the Commandos with their leader, Lord Louis Mountbatten-interviewed men who had been in the Commando raids at the Lofoten Islands and St. Nazaire-lunched with Winston Churchill-questioned Anthony Eden, Sir Stafford Cripps, Oliver Lyttelton and many others on the progress...
...while there was yet time, the new war technique of infiltration and the organization of a people's army, which he had learned in Spain. Not until May 14, 1940 did he get any official backing. That day the earnest, professorial voice of the then War Secretary, Anthony Eden, appealed over the BBC for unpaid volunteers to prepare for action in the event of invasion. The Government expected 250,000 volunteers...
...unofficial sampling of Bellboys revealed that they considered their courtyard to be "the beauty spot of Cambridge." Elephant supporters rose in revolt to protest, only to be met by a Lowell statement that their courtyard contains a dogwood, four lilacs, and a cherry. Latest word from "The Latter-Day Eden" is that they expect to counter the Lowell claim by pointing out that their courtyard has Merriman ad a large tree...
Snakes. Through twelve years of such experiences Mrs. Rawlings came to know her neighbors as well as she knew the "toady-frogs, lizards, antses and varmints." Knowing them was easier, on the whole, than learning to share her Eden with snakes. She tried to overcome her fear by playing with a pretty red, black and yellow snake in the garden. She ran it through her fingers like a necklace. She was more terrified than ever when she discovered that it was a deadly coral snake. At last she conquered her fear by learning to pick up live rattlers with...
...small, trim-mustached man who looks like a blend of Adolphe Menjou and Anthony Eden, Claudio Arrau at 38 is an old hand in the concert field. As a lad of 20 he made a short U.S. tour in 1924, but failed to go over, and left with a poor opinion of U.S. musical taste. Europe promptly claimed him. Until the war, Pianist Arrau was content to divide his lucrative concert time between Europe and South America, playing 125 concerts a year...