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...Chips, the story opens with the hero well on in years and quietly resigned to his own mediocrity. Charles Anderson has the rank of a first secretary in the British Foreign Service and the fate of an also-ran in life. He is a bit stuffy, oldfashioned, well-liked, fond of making mildly witty remarks and coated with "a thin crust of mannerism." At the beginning of Chapter Two comes the flashback. Charles is seen as a boy, at Brookfield, where his master is the original Mr. Chips, called back for a brief return engagement. Author Hilton leads Charles through...
...first day. Before the week ended, the price was back up to 28?, but coppermen felt that this was only a short reprieve. Britain has not yet begun to sell copper from its null stockpile, and Chile, which has kept 65,000 tons off the market in fond hopes of getting 36? a Ib., now is anxiously ready to sell at the world price. In the U.S., copper futures contracts have already fallen as low as 26? a Ib. (pre-Korea copper sold...
...Foster had been Secretary of State under Benjamin Harrison and uncle Robert Lansing was to become Secretary of State under Wilson. At the age of eight, Allen, already deep in the problems of international relations, turned out a 31-page history of the Boer War, roundly criticizing the British. Fond relatives arranged to have the booklet published, and despite wrong grammar and juvenile misspellings, it sold 4,000 copies and earned some $1,500, which was turned over to a Boer relief fund. (This youthful literary effort served Dulles well in 1920 when he asked Columbia Professor Henry Alfred Todd...
Lord Louis is now stationed far away from London as commander in chief of the NATO Mediterranean fleet based on Malta, and the Queen Mother's reported distaste for Edwina has produced a notable coolness between the Mountbattens and Buckingham Palace. Philip, though still fond of Uncle Louis and Aunt Edwina, is reportedly well aware that his kinship may now become more hindrance than help. But he remains a Battenberg, and so does his son, the next King of England. In 100 years, the blood of the Battenbergs has risen from obscurity on the banks of the Rhine...
Main Street to Broadway (Lester Cowan; MGM) is dedicated to the fond belief that everybody west of the Jersey Turnpike is simply fascinated by the theater in Manhattan; they may not be after seeing this movie, which is about as real as an actress' eyelashes...