Word: britain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blonde Cinemactress Virginia Mayo, 26, appeared to two men to be the answer to a problem. "The Sultan of Morocco told [her] that she was for him the most striking proof of God's existence," said the Rev. A. J. Long, 29-year-old bachelor pastor of Britain's Southwark Unitarian Church. "Why not?" mused Pastor Long. "The beauty of woman is a revelation...
With the possible exception of Jacob Epstein, 50-year-old Henry Moore is Britain's best and most controversial sculptor. Moore's half-abstract figures-pinheaded people carved into queer, attenuated shapes, rubbed smooth and then pierced with holes-have won critical acclaim in Manhattan (TIME, Dec. 30, 1946). A year ago they earned him first prize at an international exhibition in Venice. Last week, Yorkshire-born Henry Moore let the homefolks in on what he had been doing by holding a retrospective show in the red brick, grey-roofed town of Wakefield. Six thousand Yorkshiremen turned...
Princess & Punch. With the muscular but metronomic beat that Bostonians have come to know well in 20 years, Conductor Fiedler launched into a lively program that began with the Princess Elizabeth march, by Britain's Eric Coates. At the end of each number, instead of going offstage, he took a seat in front of his cellos and beamed while waitresses collected orders at the crowded tables-for beer, wine and the purplish lemonade known as "Pop Punch." When the applause was insistent, he signaled for an encore from more than 400 numbers that he keeps on tap. On opening...
Died. Wyndham Raymond Portal,* First Viscount Portal of Laverstoke, 64, Britain's Minister of Works and Planning (1942-44) and president of the '48 Olympic games held in London; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hampshire, England...
...confused with Marshal of the R.A.F. Viscount Portal of Hungerford, chief of Britain's Air Staff...