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DIED. Margaret Lindsay, 70, Iowa-born actress who posed as an Englishwoman to land a film role in Cavalcade (1933), and appeared in 80 other movies over the next 30 years, mostly mysteries and melodramas, including The House of the Seven Gables (1940); of emphysema; in Los Angeles...
...Englishwoman who was never very pro-American. Now, however, the U.S. has all my sympathy. It is expected to help out every Tom, Dick and Harry as the years go by, and gets precious little thanks for what it does. People say President Carter dithers. Who wouldn't with the "friends...
Despite the tension on its borders, Botswana has remained markedly free of both tribal and racial strife. Khama, who was once banned from his homeland after his marriage in 1948 to a white Englishwoman, Ruth Williams, a former London secretary, has had much to do with maintaining this harmonious atmosphere...
Time and again the World Health Organization has declared smallpox extinct, only to have the ancient scourge reappear like a genie from a virologist's flask. Although the last known case of smallpox occurred in Somalia last October, the disease has not died out. An Englishwoman working at the University of Birmingham Medical School contracted it, presumably from virus escaping from a lab on a floor below. Before the case was diagnosed, a co-worker flew off to North Dakota on a holiday, thereby extending the smallpox alert...
...left alone, but apparently susceptible to outside influences." To his friends he was something of a dandy. He loved English suits and was equally adept at wheedling credit out of landladies and getting bright young girls to help him with his writing; eventually he married a 32-year-old Englishwoman, Edna Clarke. In 1935 he played a bit part in an Alexander Korda film, Sanders of the River, with his friend Paul Robeson. He was so deeply affected by the Italian invasion of Ethiopia that he broke through a police line to embrace Haile Selassie when the exiled Emperor arrived...