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Rotting Hill, by Wyndham Lewis. Nine corrosive stories about mid-century Brit ain (TIME, April...
Encore has polished acting, direction and writing by three different sets of Brit. ish film talents. But the real star of the picture is that skilled old party, Somerset Maugham, who is seen in the garden of his Cote d'Azur villa as he introduces each of the stories. Author Maugham's latest screen encore serves as a reminder to epic-sated moviegoers that good things often come in small packages...
From government headquarters, the rioting spread through the Anglicized Egyptian capital of Cairo, a city of two mil lion people. Frenzied mobs wreaked their vengeance on the oases of the hated Brit ish wherever they found them. Virtually every bar that catered to Westerners was wrecked. Three British-and American-owned movie theaters were set afire. Barclays Bank and several British-run clothing stores went up in flames. The sacrosanct Turf Club was invaded, its furnishings smashed, its building set afire, its precious liquor spilled. Even famed Shepheard's Hotel was swept up in the holocaust...
...young Turks." Lord Woolton, 68, the florid, white-haired department-store tycoon and campaign organizer for the Tories -Lord President of the Council, with special responsibilities for food and agriculture. Tories call him "Uncle Fred" the Laborites call him "Uncle Woof-Woof" -in both cases behind his back. As Brit ain's wartime Food Minister, he did an amazingly efficient job of fusing the nation by substituting such cold comforts as dried eggs and Woolton Pie (cod and potatoes) for the beefy luxuries of the British dinner table -and instead of becoming the most unpopular man in Britain, emerged...
...early days of World War II, James Brit Brown, then 25, was a touching case to his draft board: he was an only son; his father had died two years before, leaving his mother alone and helpless on their 8,000-acre ranch near Portales. He was deferred...