Word: 6d
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...making sure that no one flagged his duty. Her rigidly towering silhouette in the last three decades has become a symbol of British royalty as familiar to newspaper readers the world over as France's Eiffel Tower. Last week in Her Majesty Queen Mary (Sampson Low, London; 125. 6d.), Press Association's Buckingham Palace Correspondent Louis Wulff provided a semi-official but nonetheless intimate glimpse of Mary during her years as Queen Mother. It reveals a Victorian as stern as she is self-disciplined, a queen who takes herself seriously...
...year and beating Hollywood at its own game of mass production. How badly he had flopped was shown by the prices of stocks in his two top companies, both at their eight-year lows. Gaumont-British common, which hit a high of 18s. last year, was down to 4s. 6d. last week. Odeon Theatres common, which had been up to 453., was down to 8. Commented the London Evening Standard: "In view of the gloomy estimates [of] the past year's results . . . shareholders must be prepared for shocks as far as dividends are concerned...
...editor's cupboard at night with the pages blank. They did not even try to cover the secret debates of World War II. Hansard's familiar blue-book (white since 1943) was often delayed a day by bombings, but never missed an issue. Today Hansard sells (at 6d.) or gives away 9,876 copies an issue, the biggest circulation in its history...
Searching for the answers, a topflight British opinion-sampling organization called Mass-Observation interviewed 500 people in a semi-suburban borough of London. The results, published in a book called Puzzled People (Victor Gollancz, 7s. 6d.), do not add up to a complete cross section of British religious thinking. Nonetheless, Puzzled People makes profitable reading for churchmen, sociologists and trendspotters in the U.S. as well as England. Highlights...
Because he admires the Partisan Review so much, Editor Connolly, who publishes London's highbrow Horizon, had 1,000 photo-offset copies of Review printed, and sold them at cost (35. 6d.). Said one Bloomsbury bookseller: "American intellectuals have so much vitality that it just forces itself out from inside them, while ours just seem to be writing off the top of their minds. Why, when people have discovered Partisan Review on the shelf, their eyes have lit up with pleasure, and as you know people's eyes don't light up any more, what with...