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Coventrians, who had first look at the entries, expressed their contempt in a colorful string of nicknames: "the grand piano," "the Kremlin," "the pork pie," "the egg-in-a-cup," "the beehive." Even the winning entry, a conservatively modern stone, glass, concrete and steel structure by Scottish Architect Basil Spence, was compared unenthusiastically to a cinema, a factory and a block of flats...
...Marshal Sir Basil Embry, D.S.O., is today commander in chief of Britain's Fighter Command. But in May 1940 he was a mere squadron leader, just notified of his promotion to group captain. Promptly he decided to lead his old squadron on a farewell sweep over northern France. An hour or so later, while the rest of the squadron headed home, Group Captain Embry, his plane shot to pieces, was "gently, blissfully" descending upon the German lines by parachute...
Boris Pascuniak's sensitive directing keeps the story probable and well-placed; he is helped out a great deal by a delightfully pastoral musical score by Bonar Gillis. The acting, unfortunately, is less competent. Jane Cruikshank plays the Snopes daughter with a sheepish grin, while Basil Mange is never convincing as the anthropologist-congressman who finally settles the inter-racial strife. "North Forty's" technicolor sheep are wonderfully convincing, however, and they leave the moviegoer with a true sensation of the old West...
Died. Colonel Vasily de Basil, 63, onetime Czarist Cossack cavalryman, who in 1932 founded the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, with the largest segment of the late Impresario Diaghilev's disbanded Ballet Russe; of a heart attack; in Paris. With such dancers as Danilova, Toumanova and Lichine he made the company popular and temporarily profitable (at least two of his U.S. tours grossed as high as $1,000,000 each...
...Crates Were Packed. In Abadan, the last planeloads of British women & children flew out. The word to evacuate would probably come soon. In London, Basil R. Jackson, Anglo-Iranian's deputy chairman, said: "They're just going to have to learn from bitter experience that they can't handle it [operating the fields and the refinery]." Abadan was already slowed down to 45% of its 500,000-bbl. daily capacity. Another 20 days, even of reduced output, and the tanks would be full and the great shutdown would come. Reluctant to finally slam the door, the British...