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...Colonel Blimp's direst argument against joining the Common Market is that effete Continental customs will sap the British Way of Life. "Even before her entry," the Paris daily Le Monde observed last week, "Britain is throwing off certain of the original traits to which she has always been so attached. She speaks of adopting the metric system. Automobiles there now have bright colors; high buildings are going up in the middle of London, and worthy gentlemen no longer fear to walk about bareheaded." However, pointed out Le Monde: "The osmosis is not all in one direction. The whole...
...named a member of the Order of the British Empire was Commander Walter Edward Whitehead, bearded pitchman for Schweppes quinine water. Among 2,000 other honors: a knighthood for Guardian Cartoonist David Low-who now becomes Sir David-creator of that enduring symbol of bumbling bureaucracy, Colonel Blimp; an Order of the British Empire for New Zealand Runner Peter Snell, world record holder in the mile, half-mile, 1,000-yd. and 500-meter races; Commanders of the Order of the British Empire for Novelist Elspeth Huxley, Poet Stephen Spender, Actor Emlyn Williams...
...young German bursting with aggressive force, manic charm, balked ambition and jealous lust for a pretty, flirty waitress (Mary Yeomans). The butcher is a steady boozer who loathes the "lousy forriners'' he works with and keeps squalling:' "Speak bloody English!" The vegetable cook is a soiled blimp who waggles her massive breasts at the salad chef but insists that the lower echelons observe the proper necking order. The proprietor is a muttering overfed Levantine who furtively patrols the shadows, peering suspiciously at his employees, flapping his jowls and sobbing quietly: "Sabotage...
...paper-airplane crowd may find the ethics of the film a bit confusing, but they are bound to get a bang out of The Albatross, which is indeed a gorgeous gadget. Made entirely of impregnated paper, it checks out at 200 m.p.h. and looks like a cross between a blimp, a helicopter, a giant bat and a 19th century resort hotel. It even has a side porch...
During World War I, German Zeppelins bombed London from the safe altitude of 20,000 ft., far above the ceilings of primitive fighter planes. But by 1916, air defense techniques had improved so much that five Zeppelins were shot down over Britain. Also during World War I, the "blimp," as such, was born. The term came from a British designation of "Limps" for nonvertebrate dirigibles; there were two classes, "A-Limps" and "B-Limps." A British dirigible, the R-34, made the first transatlantic flight in 1919, eight years before Lindbergh's, and between the two World Wars...