THEY DIED IN 1940
sion that obituaries are necessarily dull and depressing should tune in to the programme "They Served Mankind," heard from 2YA at three o’clock on Sunday afternoons. ts who are under an impres"They Served Mankind" commemorates celebrities and leading personalities who died during 1940, last Sunday’s programme dealing with those whose deaths occurred during the first six months of the year. These included Colonel Crompton (who had the distinction of being slapped by Queen Victoria), Noble, the Australian cricketer, Senator Borah, Lord Tweedsmuir and Michael Joseph Savage. Next Sunday the feature will deal with Katherine Mayo (author of "Mother India"), Tom Mix, Sir Oliver Lodge, Cherry Kearton, W. H. Davies, Sir. J. J. Thompson, and a whole group of Empire figures, including Neville Chamberlain, Lord Lothian, Lord Craigavon, Lord Strickland, Sir Abe Bailey and Sir Wilfred Grenfell. On the following Sunday, tribute will be paid to stage and concert celebrities who died in 1940.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 84, 31 January 1941, Page 8
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