Word: busman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chin up but mouse-quiet, Elizabeth Taylor Todd made her first public appearance since the death of her rambunctious Mike (TIME, March 31) at a Hollywood press conference called to announce her next screen role: a budding beauty queen in the comedy Busman's Holiday. The producers: plucky Liz and her stepson, Mike Todd Jr., 28, who nervously flaunted some of the old man's damn-the-torpedoes financial bazaz: "Cost? We'll spend as much as it takes...
Although both places have a fairly faithful clientele, the presence of the "other shop" keeps each place wary and leads them to keep security measures. Cook says he has not had time to sample the Capriccio's service, but either for purpose of reconnaissance or a busman's holiday, the Capriccio's owners have dropped in to their competitor's for coffee...
Mystery Story When Dorothy L. Sayers wrote a piece last week under the title "The Great Mystery," she had not returned to her old trade as a topnotch writer of mystery stories (Gaudy Night, Murder Must Advertise, Busman's Honeymoon). She was talking about the mystery of life after death, subject of a new London Sunday Times series (among future contributors: Bertrand Russell, the Aga Khan). Already noted as a translator of Dante and an able amateur theologian, Anglican Author Sayers gave a cogent and striking version of one Christian view of the afterlife...
...fact that the "unknowns" are on view at all is pure luck. Last spring brisk, greying Edith Halpert, 55. owner of the Downtown Gallery, went to Europe on a ten-day vacation. In the familiar busman's-holiday pattern, she took time to drop in on Rome's 62-year-old American Academy. After a look at what the young Americans were doing there, she promptly started buying their work. And concluding that they rated a show, she turned her ten-day vacation into a three-week business trip that included Florence and Paris...
...Darke is neither a four-star writer, a triple-decker intellectual nor a two-timing spy. He is just a London bus conductor. But for 18 years Busman Darke was a member of the British Communist Party, and in Cockney Communist he tells a story that Communist writers, intellectuals and spies have skipped: how a middle-echelon party functionary lives and thinks...