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...Alas, TIME erred. It was Granada Television, not the BBC, that presented four full-length plays by the "Outpatient of the Year," Noel Coward, on successive weeks...
...wonder idly what I might be remembered for a hundred years from now-but I don't really very much care what people think about me, especially a hundred years hence." Perhaps John Burdon Sanderson Haldane did not really care, but last week, when it came time for BBC-TV to present a prefilmed obituary of the versatile British scientist in which he appeared, it was clear that he would be remembered for a multitude of contributions to man's knowledge of his world and of himself...
...London, tributes to "the only antediluvian," as he styled himself in 1940, range from an hour-long BBC television show built around his favorite songs to a radio play about the second most illustrious of the Churchills, the Duke of Marl borough. At dozens of observances throughout the U.S., Americans contributed funds to the Winston Churchill Memorial- at Fulton, Mo., commemorating the historic 1946 "Sinews of Peace" speech at Westminster College, in which Churchill urged the Western world to close ranks again in the face of a threat to peace as formidable as any it had yet seen: "From Stettin...
Britannican Lyrics. To demonstrate his fitness, Coward took over this week as master of ceremonies on a 90-minute BBC television tribute to Sir Winston Churchill on the eve of his 90th birth day. Noting all this, the Times of London felt moved to write a tribute to Coward too. "Here, through and through, is a craftsman," explained the Times, "who has remained at the top of his profession for longer perhaps than any other living English playwright, simply because he has dedicated his life not to attitudes or to transient theatrical movements but to getting on with his work...
Though the Cantabrigians-six men and a girl-keep their eyes on the oddball, they also have a wayward way with words. Sounding like the BBC, B.C., a newscaster announces unctuously, "Here beginneth the first verse of the news," goeth on to report the latest Old Testament news flashes. Sports items include a heavyweight bout: "At the weigh-in for the big fight tomorrow, Goliath tipped the scales this evening at 15 stone 3 lbs. and David at 14 stone 3 lbs. David's manager said this evening, 'the odd stone could make all the difference...