Word: austen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...live hour-long Matinee Theater, the only daytime color TV show on any network, has launched dozens of new writers and a score of directors, given more roles to actors than MGM. Among its 29 tons of scripts, the show has adapted worthy works ranging from Jane Austen to Emile Zola. As a sheer piece of logistics, it has piled up phenomenal records: it has used 15,243 costumes, 4,203 settings, 210,103 props, and 9,035 gallons of coffee to keep the casts and crews rolling on. It seemed that Matinee Theater would roll on forever...
...most perilous honors in Scotland's academic world is election to the purely decorative post of Rector of the University of Glasgow. In a remarkable display of grace under fire, Britain's Home Secretary Richard Austen Butler last week was installed and violently decorated by fun-loving undergraduates. "By 1970," Rab Butler was telling some 2.000 roaring students, "Britain can expect to increase her wealth by no less than 41%." Then the fun began. While a jazz band blared and soot bombs burst in air, No. 2 Tory Butler plunged stoically onward with his nuclear-energy speech, wearing...
Licensed Jester. By the time Low was ready for London in 1919, he had whittled the heavy chip on his provincial, radical, colonial shoulder into quite a weapon. He knew how to de-stuff shirts, e.g., he recalls that Austen Chamberlain, Britain's Foreign Secretary in the '20s, could not read very well through his celebrated monocle; that Stanley Baldwin, famed for his pipe-puffing, "probably smoked cigarettes in private...
Next morning, while London pundits predicted almost with one voice that his successor would probably be Lord Privy Seal Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler, curious crowds gathered before the palace gates. At 1:45 p.m. a cry went up when a small, dusty Wolseley entered the palace gates: "Here comes Butler!" Then some one recognized the bareheaded man sitting next to the driver in the front seat, and shouted: "It's Mac, the bookie!" Forty minutes later, Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan, half-American grandson of a Scots tenant farmer, ex-Grenadier Guardsman and wartime friend of President Dwight...
...Aims. Within the quiet Cabinet room differences were minimized. Richard Austen Butler, who is in effect deputy premier though his title is only Lord Privy Seal, did not quarrel with the desirability of Eden's objectives in wanting to fight on. But, said "Rab" Butler pointedly, he himself had just made a speech, which he had thought was in line with Eden's views, saying that Britain had intervened in Egypt only to stop the fighting. How could he go back to the House and say now that Britain refused the cease-fire even though the other combatants...