GREAT BRITAIN: Funny Old Things

Hero-worshipping men-children of Giggleswick School, Yorkshire, were addressed last fortnight by Lord Byng of Vimy, 65, the grizzled War hero who is about to become Police Commissioner at London's famed Scotland Yard. Even at Giggleswick little boys know that Scotland Yard has been rocked by scandalous exposures (TIME, July 16) and that the weighty War prestige of Lord Byng is counted on to steady matters down. Especially do naughty little Giggleswickers know about Miss Irene Savidge, who was made to show her pink petticoat in the course of a Scotland Yard Third Degree which caused the...

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