Word: bernardes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Socialist George Bernard Shaw turned a capital gain in a London auction. After hanging on to a $160 clavichord for 28 years, he let it go for a well-tempered...
Included are such classics as Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and Major Barbara, three Charles Laughton pictures (The Beachcomber, Jamaica Inn, Sidewalks of London), and the successful Dark Journey, South Riding, A Star Is Born and The Young in Heart. WPIX will begin televising the series next month, and will syndicate the pictures to stations outside the New York area...
Crusade in Europe (Thurs. 9 p.m., ABC-TV). Guest: Bernard Baruch...
...days ago my friend, the British Consul General in Rabat, and I went to Casablanca to meet some of our California friends, who were cruising on the Stella Polaris. We had made all sorts of arrangements for their brief stay in Morocco. On greeting Bernard Ford, one of the Pacific Coast's leading investment brokers, we asked him to choose between a flying trip to Marrakech or a motor excursion to Rabat. He answered: "Look here, before anything else let me go to a newsstand. I want to get the TIME copies I've missed since we left...
...Bernard Shaw this week warned foreigners visiting Britain to speak broken English: "Even among English people, to speak too well is a pedantic affectation. In a foreigner it is something worse than an affectation. It is an insult to the native who cannot understand his own language when it is too well spoken...