Off to Singapore!

In a suite at Manhattan's Hotel Ambassador last week, newshawks were treated to a firsthand account of British farming in wartime. The agricultural expert was blonde, 49-year-old Lady Diana Duff Cooper, for many years "The Most Beautiful Woman in England," famed for her playing of the Madonna in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle. With her Cabinet Minister husband, Alfred Duff Cooper, she was en route to the Far East, where he will act as coordinator of Britain's war efforts.

Seven years ago Lady Diana and some friends formed a company to sell the gravel from the beach in front of her summer place at Bognor Regis on England's south coast. There beauteous Lady Diana slopped the hogs, kept two swarms of bees, tended two goats, 30 chickens, milked The Princess (a cow). "The Princess is such a lovely cow," said she. "I simply adore her. And she gives so much good milk."

From The Princess' milk Lady Diana made "a sort of" cheddar cheese. "I never believed farming could be so much fun," declared she, "but now--it's off to Singapore!"

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