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What do they do on a rainy day in Britain? Last week, the cables of the Associated Press were humming with the news. They play hink pink. How? Well, one Briton says to another, "Hink pink, convict?" If the other is quick on the trigger, he answers smartly: "Bad lad!" "Hink pink, sculpture," might draw the reply: "Bust trust." For advanced players the game can run into two syllables. Samples: "Hinky pinky, Palestine." Answer: "Skittish British." Possible, but inadvisable except for postgraduates, is the three-syllable challenge: "Hinkitty pinkitty, no more Molotov." The answer would, of course, be: "Bevinly Heavenly...
Hark, Hark, the Lark. For the more dignified, there were such things as the sonnet-writing contests held regularly in the home of Ford Madox Ford-a lively old Briton who loved to reminisce about his experiences in World War I. "It was in No Man's Land," Ford would say reflectively: "We were making a night attack. I had gone ahead to reconnoiter. I was crawling along on my-er-stomach when suddenly, above the roar of battle, I heard a sound-it was larks singing. Then I looked up and saw that it was light...
Next day the newspapers did their patriotic best to make it a pugilistic Dunkirk. The Tory Daily Mail stout-fella'd: ". . . a Briton has once again proved his ability to 'take it' in the face of hopeless odds. . . ." The Laborite Daily Herald gave it the headline of the week...
Meanwhile, he's happy at CBS. His first broadcast was an adaptation of Mal colm Lowry's currently fashionable novel about an alcoholic Briton in Mexico, Under the Volcano (TIME, Feb. 24). Up coming: Topaze, a telescoped Winesburg, Ohio and an updated An Enemy of the People...
Thus was Britain prepared, with customary sweetness and light, for Hugh Dalton's birthing. But no Briton was wholly prepared for the shock of what he delivered (see below...