Word: britain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although he was neck-deep in a detailed reporting job for TIME'S forthcoming cover story on Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, Dec. 6), Gruin made arrangements to evacuate his family from Shanghai (they are now on their way back to the U.S.). After a trip to Britain's Hong Kong to file some copy and get some rest, Doyle cabled: "Since my wife and I came to China unencumbered with household goods, we can watch with a relaxed eye the pell-mell evacuation of Shanghai by those with loads of furniture and the ever present tung...
When he chooses, Ben Nicholson paints charming and recognizable still lifes and landscapes. He doesn't always choose. He also happens to be Britain's most revered abstractionist. For conservatives, there's the rub. In a book on Nicholson newly published in England, Art Critic Herbert Read rubs it in. You can't admire the still lifes and abhor the abstractions, admonishes Read, "without confessing to a prejudice that has nothing to do with the essential qualities...
...Britain's most venerable and most crotchety critic, George Bernard Shaw, just couldn't be bothered. The Shavian reason: there is a tacit agreement between critic and management not to go to law, since the critic always libels and the management always agrees to the libel in exchange for publicity...
...1930s, when Franklin Roosevelt assured the U.S. that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself" and ending in 1945 with General Douglas MacArthur's acceptance of the Japanese surrender aboard the battleship Missouri, the album preserves historic high spots of the years between. Here is Britain's Edward VIII confessing that Wallis Simpson of Baltimore is "the woman I love"; here, as the dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flame above Lakehurst, N.J., the announcer's gasp, "It's terrible . . . it's terrible! . . ." There are the soothing phrases of Neville Chamberlain, returned from Munich...
What ails Britain's George VI? All public engagements would be canceled "over a period of some months." The official bulletins had been medically vague. But at week's end it was learned that the King suffers from a variation of Buerger's disease,* mostly affecting his right foot. Other more frightening names for it: presenile gangrene, thrombo-angiitis obliterans...