Word: catto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into his place stepped a hardheaded Scotsman, 65-year-old Thomas Sivewright Catto, First Baron Catto of Cairncatto,* a British businessman of worldwide experience, who during the last three years has been joint advisor, with John Maynard Keynes, now First Baron Keynes of Tilton, to his Majesty's Treasury in Whitehall...
...close has been the association of Catto and Keynes-sometimes referred to as Lords Catto and Doggo-that some observers predicted a revolution in Britain's financial policy. In fact, Lord Catto's appointment was simply one more instance of Britain's genius for adapting all kinds of talent to the service of King and country...
They Walk Alone (by Max Catto, produced by Ben A. Boyar) is the latest of the many dramas of British rural horror. The servant girl on an English gentleman's farm has dark compulsions to play the chapel organ in the middle of the night. The music stirs her libido and she thereupon lures young men out on the moors. There, after presumable orgies, her conscience apparently asserts itself. She murders her partners and, it would seem, commits on them certain unmentionable excess damages-the play isn't very clear about...