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...wrote London Daily Mirror's Cassandra last month of Acting Wing Commander Douglas Robert Stewart Bader, 31, who has no legs. Last week the British race was suddenly without his services...
...weeks: He is "socially pretty wise," recognizing strangers and growing impatient as he sees his mother preparing food. He shakes a rattle, sucks his toes. He also plays with his image in a mirror, "talks" to his toys...
...County Derry Irishman named William Connor, who writes for the London Daily Mirror under the pseudonym "Cassandra," sharpened his Celtic fangs last fortnight, grabbed a BBC mike, and proceeded to chew up Funnyman Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, who now broadcasts out of Berlin for Goebbels & Co. (TIME, July 7, 14). Strange stuff for staid old BBC were his scarifying comments...
Highly enjoyable to hefty, bespectacled William Connor was the national hubbub about his broadcast. In his office at the Mirror he continued to turn out vitriolic screeds in longhand, taking time out occasionally to blow a few toots on his mouth organ, an inspirational aid. Said he last week...
Promptly came an assorted roar from the London press. While the Mirror screamed Right and the Times murmured Wrong, and Duff Cooper voiced approval of the broadcast, the public split neatly in three. Group One contended Wodehouse was an artist who shouldn't be held responsible; Group Two said Wodehouse was wrong indeed, but that attacks like Connor's were in execrable taste; Group Three was for more all-out acid-throwing instead of BBC's usual drawing-room argument...