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Queen Elizabeth II was pleased to bestow her royal blessings on some 2,000 of her subjects. Among those cited on the New Year Honors List: Actor John Mills, 51, and Poet John Betjeman, 53, both made Commanders of the British Empire; Actor Stanley Holloway, 62, the cockney "Get me to the church on time" of My Fair Lady fame, who becomes an officer in the Order of the British Empire; and Australian-born Actress Judith Anderson, 61, a U.S. resident for 42 years, who becomes a Dame Commander. Alan Lennox-Boyd, 55, the Tory's beleaguered former Colonial Secretary, was made a Companion of Honor, and Hugh Dalton, former Labor Chancellor of the Exchequer, was given a life peerage. Of special interest to the U.S.: Sir Roger Makins, from 1953 to 1956 Ambassador in Washington (Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath), and Major Cyril Berkeley Ormerod, 62, sometime professional officer, since 1945 the amiable and able director of public relations in Manhattan's British Information Services. Henceforth, Major Bill Ormerod will be Sir Berkeley.

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