Word: briton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tributes to "Obie," as he is widely and affectionately known, for it was he who drew our first cover 33 years ago (see cut). Obie's "first" for TIME was actually the result of an impromptu loan. TIME'S young founders, Henry R. Luce and Briton Hadden, had asked advertising agency friends for advice on the art layout for their first cover. During this consultation, they decided to use the portrait of a personality outstanding in the current news-a TIME tradition ever since. The figure in the news that week was Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, onetime...
...very end of his hectic three-week power-plant tour, pudgy little Georgy Malenkov kept smiling his guileless-looking kewpie doll's smile, fascinating working girls, and murmuring sweet nothings to every Briton within handshaking range of his far-flying ZIS limousine. "Such a charmer," said the Daily Herald. "Irresistible," admitted a woman from the Tory Daily Sketch. Last week, between sending a Russian perfume called "Night" to Ballerina Margot Fonteyn and paying a visit to Karl Marx's grave in London's Highgate Cemetery, the adroit advance man for Khrushchev and Bulganin smiled unrlaggingly through...
...Bright, twinkling-eyed Al Bradley is a contrast to his great predecessor and good friend. Sloan, a graven-faced Connecticut Yankee, practiced prohibition for years, wears a stickpin, dresses with a flourish, disdains tobacco and sniffs at sports. Bradley is a roly-poly (5 ft. 6 in., 160 Ibs.) Briton who arrived in the U.S. at the age of seven, a casual dresser who often appears in mismatched pants and coat, a keen southpaw golfer and a Scotch drinker...
Mister Johnson (adapted from Joyce Gary's novel by Norman Rosten) is a young West African Negro who has become a British government clerk and yearns to be a full-fledged, "civilized," Christian Briton. But, even in his bumbling and his guile, the sunny-natured, light-fingered, childlike clerk is miles from his models. An orphan of two cultures, he carries a furled umbrella while walking barefoot, with his patent leather pumps hanging about his neck...
Nothing arouses the Briton like criticism, and last week Britons were getting plenty of it. The World Council of Churches condemned the exiling of Archbishop Makarios as an act "very deeply resented throughout the orthodox world," sent messages of sympathy and support to Makarios himself in his tropical island exile. Greece talked of withdrawing from NATO, and actually did withdraw its ambassador from London. The U.S. State Department tried to avoid taking sides between its Greek and British friends (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), but in Athens, U.S. Ambassador Cavendish Cannon called on Greek Premier Konstantin