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Gathering his experts about him, Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden got set to visit the U.S. this week. The major problem on his agenda was finding Anglo-American agreement on the Middle East where, warned Eden, "a universal explosion could easily be touched...
Died. Louis Oppenheimer, 85, director of London's Diamond Corp., which controls 90% of the world's diamond production; in Gerrard's Cross, England. One of five brothers who built the worldwide Oppenheimer holdings (i.e., the Anglo-American Corp., with more than 200 subsidiaries in gold, diamonds, copper and other enterprises, worth about $3 billion), Louis Oppenheimer headed the marketing apparatus of the family's diamond interests, while his brother Sir Ernest ("The King of Diamonds") became director of the corporation in Johannesburg...
...singing voice, doesn't so much sing a song as suggest that he is singing one. His best: Loch Lomond and Mad Dogs and Englishmen. Mary Martin was brilliantly funny in a scene from Madame Butterfly, and happily belted out a long-but not long enough-succession of Anglo-American tunes...
...opposite pole is Nigel Dennis' fantasy, Cards of Identity. Dennis' first book, A Sea Change, won him the Anglo-American Novel Award in 1949. Dennis, who lives in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, England, has been a contributing editor of TIME since 1942, specializing in reviewing books. Now that he has written another one of his own, he seems to be creating a sensation among his fellow critics. Said the New York Times: "Cards of Identity may be remembered and read for some time to come." The London Sunday Times called it "one of the three or four most mercurially alert...
Sumner was snake-infested swamp until it was cleared for cotton in 1873. Like many another U.S. town, it was built around a courthouse, and its pioneers brought into the wilderness a respect for Anglo-American law. But they also brought the hatreds and half-digested lessons of Reconstruction years and a socio-economic system that would constantly conflict with the tradition of Anglo-American justice as those traditions lived and evolved among the vast majority of their countrymen...