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...tugs chugged alongside. Antlike figures made fast the tossed lines. The town band, percussive and perspiring, panted with bravura through the Merry Widow Waltz, Pomp & Circumstance, and struck up the great invocation: Rule, Britannia! Through the mist in some watchers' eyes the colossal Cunarder wavered moltenly. Even Colonel Blimp blew his nose with a Tory blast prolonged by the boom of the great ship's sirens, which are pitched two octaves below middle A and audible ten miles across the downs. On decks and dock, the handkerchiefs fluttered, bon voyage bouquets were waved. The farewells grew fainter across...
Poughkeepsie Regatta (Sat. 7 p.m., NBC; 7:15 p.m., ABC). For NBC, Bill Stern, covering the annual eight-oared shell championship race from a blimp...
Different & Diffident. The language of The Industrial Charter was mostly the work of 42-year-old David McAdam Eccles, a smooth-mannered M.P. for Chippenham, an up-comer among "progressive" Conservatives. Like Grossman, Eccles is Oxford-bred. By this week some Laborites were calling him "Colonel Blimp's Dick Crossman." The Tory and Laborite pamphlets were more remarkable for their similarities than for their differences. They agreed, in the main, that Britain's economy should be run according to Government plan; both cried the need of one powerful Minister...
...Colonel Blimp nearly fainted in his bath: in Health Minister Aneurin Bevan's leftist Tribune had appeared a headline: "Nationalize the M.C.C." The M.C.C. is the Marylebone Cricket Club, blueblooded governing body of the national sport. Wrote poker-faced George Harrison in London's News of the World...
...makers of Stairway to Heaven-plumpish, rumpled Writer Emeric Pressburger and high-strung, contentious Director Michael ("Micky") Powell-can boast a freedom in their work that few other moviemakers in the world enjoy. Having collaborated on some of Britain's best films (Colonel Blimp, The Invaders) they are one of Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank's most free-reined independent producing units. Mr. Rank picks up their check without bothering too much about the details of what they have ordered...