Word: britain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Campbell's hobby is cooking (he is reputedly able to turn Britain's austerity rations into tasty dishes). His professional obsession is interservice cooperation. Says Campbell: "Duplication of effort means jealousies and diversion of effort. Canada is just not big enough to take it." Privately, to the horror of all good navy men, he has urged putting all three services into the same uniform...
Weir is not necessarily on the way out, but the homeopaths' prestige in Britain is. Except for the foothold at the palace, homeopathy is pretty much out of fashion. Other doctors no longer bother to keep up the tradition against fraternizing -chiefly because they feel that homeopaths no longer threaten their medical power...
World-famed German Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler was worried. Since war's end he had conducted orchestras in Britain and Switzerland, but the bid from Chicago was his first solid offer to conduct again...
Lamb & Pup. For two years, Muffin the Mule has been enchanting Britain's old & young. He is supported by a large cast, including a "terribly brainy" penguin who "gets somewhat irritable over other peopie's muddles," and a fluffy, conceited little lamb, privately described by Annette as "possibly a bit of a bitch, but so young it doesn't matter." Other supporting players are Oswald the Ostrich, Willie the Worm, Sally the Seal, Peter the Pup, Poppy the Parrot, and two "rather common" field mice named Morris and Doris...
Died. Tommy Handley, 55, Britain's No. 1 radio comic and a favorite of the royal family (George VI persuaded the BBC to change Handley's broadcast time so the family could listen without upsetting palace dinner routine); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in London. Handley's weekly ITMA ("It's That Man Again") program of puns and silly syllogisms mystified G.I.s but convulsed 21 million Britons...