GREAT BRITAIN: Queen of the Air

Lions of London's midsummer social season this year have not been belted earls but simple U.S. journalists. Publisher George Backer of the New York Post, Editor Herbert Agar of the Louisville Courier-Journal, Radioracle Raymond Gram Swing have dined, winedir" by the London Daily Herald's veteran Columnist Hannen Swaffer, Miss Thompson had to install three stenographers and two male social secretaries in her suite at the Savoy to answer mail and arrange engagements. So busy was she that Lady Reading, relict of the late great jurist, was unable to make a date to see...

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