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...Used as a guest room at Balmoral Castle by order of King Edward last week was the large bedroom formerly occupied by King George and Queen Mary. His Majesty chose for himself a small bed room near the pantry, occupied until last week by a servant. The servant was moved out and Scottish plumbers did a record rush job of installing for the King a bathroom with an electric pushbutton handy by the tub to call his valet...
...chronicle of their lives forms an attractive and decidedly first-class novel. Scarlett O'Hara, the heroine, is a triumph of characterization; shrewd, courageous, amoral, she flaunts her personal rebellion in the face of a rebellion shaken land. Half-Irish and half-French, utter realist yet the servant of a self-deceiving love, Scarlett O'Hara is unique in American fiction. Other characters are good and bad; the minor figures are not sketched with that conciseness and surety which mark the mature artist. Miss Mitchell needs space to develop either a character or a bit of action, and she very...
...doing on the road but for Kempton-who confessed quite unashamedly to playing these tricks on his employes-to lie in ambush for the drivers in this sort of way is absolutely repellent to any person who has any feeling for the principles that should prevail between master and servant...
...offense of 100% incorrupt Sir Christopher Bullock was "indiscretion," almost the only offense with which a British Civil Servant is ever charged. In reporting to the Prime Minister the investigators indicated their feeling that the Permanent Secretary to the Air Ministry had looked forward to quitting the Civil Service and becoming Chairman of Imperial Airways, and with this in mind had suggested that "a high honor should be conferred upon [Sir Eric Campbell] Geddes [now Chairman of Imperial Airways] in recognition of his work in establishing Empire air mail services...
...Lottie Bruhn of El Paso, Tex., who dropped from sight after his death last September. Last week, as the pawnbroker wrote to Skull & Bones in New Haven which immediately bought Coy's relics, newshawks hustled around to see Lottie Bruhn Coy, found her working as a servant. Said she: ''Yes, I'm Mrs. Ted Coy. How on earth did you find me here? . . . I haven't any money. . . . Once I went five days in this town without a bite to eat. . . . I thank God for a sense of humor. If I didn't have...