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...Most unusual kudos was awarded in Washington, D. C. by American University's Chancellor Joseph M. M. Gray, who gave an honorary LL.D. to Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury, William H. McReynolds, chosen by 40 personnel administrators as No. 1 U. S. civil servant...
This document, a full-page advertisement in the London Daily Telegraph and Morning Post, was the latest manifestation of a religious eccentricity which has mildly amused the Church of England for 150 years. Joanna Southcott (1750-1814) was a pious British servant woman who, like many another simple mind, came a cropper in the mysteries of the Book of Revelation...
Died. Alfred Winny, 99, voted England's perfect servant, for 72 years in the service of the Churchill-Marlborough family and at his death butler to Lady Edward Spencer-Churchill; of old age; in Windsor, England. Winny despised the cinema, often observed that he was thankful his mistress did not go in for cocktail parties. He died in Lady Edward's best...
...Author. Wiry, soft-voiced, 39-year-old Cecil Scott Forester has written more than 20 books, took 15 years to find the public's range. Born in Cairo, Egypt, the son of a British civil servant, he first took to writing (verse) when he was a medical student at Guy's Hospital, London. His interest in the sea began on trips between Egypt and England during his boyhood, on one of which he was wrecked off Malaga. Between the ages of 23 and 26, while writing ads, peddling verse and carpets, he wrote several novels and biographies, prefers...
...miles up the Tigris from Bagdad, natives were told by agitators that the British had done away with their King. At high noon, an angry mob of Iraqi rushed the city's British Consulate, dragged out 52-year-old Consul George E.A.C. Monck-Mason, a trim, clipped civil servant whose 30-year consular career had taken him to most Near East trouble spots. Then they set fire to the building, and killed George Monck-Mason in the slow, brutal way in which Oriental mobs have for centuries disposed of those they hated; they knocked him down, and standing round...