Word: britain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brashly announced, in an article based on an informal poll of members of the Overseas Press Club, are the U.S.'s Harry Truman, Dean Acheson, Paul Hoffman, Walter Reuther and Douglas MacArthur; the U.S.S.R.'s Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Georgy Malenkov, Nikoli Bulganin and Lavrenty Beria; Britain's Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin and Winston Churchill; France's Jacques Duclos and Charles de Gaulle; Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, China's Mao Tse-tung, Spain's Francisco Franco, Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, India's Jawaharlal Nehru, Israel's Chaim Weizmann, Jordan...
...most respects a conventional-looking craft. The novelty was the four engines. They carried ordinary propellers on their noses, but instead of being blunt and thick, the Viscount's engines stuck out ahead of the wing like half-cigars (see cut). On these slender "turboprop" engines Britain is pinning her commercial airplane hopes...
Pert, pince-nezed Dorothy Leigh Sayers, 56, is best known to readers in the U.S. and Britain as a crack writer of whodunits (Busman's Honeymoon, Murder Must Advertise, etc.). But what really interests Anglican Sayers is religion. Two years ago she announced: "I have given up writing crime stories. Instead, I have engaged in a four-year task of translating Dante's Divine Comedy...
...thin clockwork cadence . . ." Britain's Wyndham Lewis once wrote, "the delicate surf falls with the abrupt clash of glass, section by section." Embedded in his mocking, thumb-to-nose social satires (Tarr, The Apes of God), such descriptions helped make him famous...
...nearest thing to a conductor's worry was the orchestra. In past years, Jones had had the well-drilled Philadelphia Orchestra in front of him; this time, with the Philadelphia on its first tour of Britain, he had first-class musicians, but it was still a pickup band. Even so, with the last quiet but magnificent "Slumber now, and take thy rest," one listener, a Baltimore lawyer who has been trekking to Bethlehem for 20 years, said appreciatively: "A good Friday; but you know, what we come for is the Saturday...