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...thank you for your reference to me in your issue of last week. It is not every middle-aged man who can say that he has been called a "glossy darling." I have been called shorter names, and liked them less. But let me correct you in an inaccuracy. You refer to me as Dikran Kouyoumdjian (Michael Arlen). It should read Michael Arlen (Dikran Kouyoumdjian). Over 20 years ago I became legally, technically, officially Michael Arlen. I paid ?5 in legal expenses, and have been working ever since to get my money back. Perhaps your calling me a "glossy darling...
Sail, Steam, Wings. If the Atlantic Ferry really becomes routine and, as some pilots think, foreshadows peacetime round-trip flights at $150 a passenger, one of the men to thank will be the son of a British Army Colonel, Bowhill of Bowhill from the Scottish Border, who transferred his love from square-riggers to the awkward skyships...
...Thank you, Mr. Taft...
Five minutes later this cheery greeting from a German radio station in Occupied France was answered with a polite Oxonian "Thank you." Ended, apparently, were months of dickering between World War II's big belligerents for the exchange of some 3,000 war prisoners (excluding men able to fight). For two days last week two shiploads of military (wounded) and civilian (interned) German prisoners were held up at Newhaven as rumors flew thick & fast that scheduled sailings had been delayed because Adolf Hitler demanded the return of Rudolf Hess, who went A.W.O.L., so that he could clap him into...
...Winston Churchill's favorite cigars, marked their box with the inscription: "From Evelyn Duncan, holder of the world's munition record." As the Prime Minister toured Birmingham's bombed areas, she ran through a police cordon, handed Winnie the cigars, kissed his hand. Said Winnie, gruffly: "Thank you very much, my dear, and thank you for what you are doing...