Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shell Gasoline (British version) features a simple-minded motorist with an asthmatic car. "Uncontrolled ignition, old boy!" explains a Mayfair type in clipped U accents. The motorist fills up on Shell and drives off, as the announcer cackles: "Happy at last. Good old George...
Tough Calculations. The experts might have missed the event altogether had it not been for British Astronomer Gordon E. Taylor, a former amateur without university training, now employed at the Royal Greenwich Observatory. At first, some of the pros doubted Taylor's calculations, which were published in January; the paths of two such remote bodies are very tough to calculate accurately. Only when the august Harvard College Observatory confirmed Taylor's calculations did the occultation of Regulus become a serious concern of world astronomy. The U.S. was ruled out as a major observation point because Venus and Regulus...
Married. Robin Douglas-Home, 27, London jazz piano player who turned adman to win the hand of Sweden's willowy Princess Margaretha but reverted to the piano after the Swedish royal family stalled and his father roared that the Swedes were belittling the British Empire; and Sandra Paul, 18, homegrown, high-paid model; in London...
Divorced. By Deborah Kerr, 37, Scottish-born cinemactress (From Here to Eternity): Anthony Bartley, 40, British TV producer, one of the fighter-pilot heroes of the Battle of Britain; after 14 years of marriage, two children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...markets from India to South America. In Great Britain, heavily bombed in the war, the steel industry is now among the world's most modern. Britain's biggest steel company is United Steel Companies Ltd., whose chairman, Sir Walter Benton Jones, 78, is the elder statesman of British steel. Says Sir Walter: "I think of nothing during the week but United Steel, and on weekends I think of my garden and my home...