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Laureate v. Literature. Yet almost from the publication of his first work, Britain's readers, critics and publishers alike proved more than willing to pay in praise and coin for the privilege of sharing his wonder. In 1930, after the publication of more than half a hundred volumes of his poems, short stories, biographical and historical studies, novels and plays, King George V crowned the onetime sailorman's efforts with the well-meant accolade of the laureateship...
...another negotiation, Bing and up & coming Tenor Richard Tucker found themselves "only ?50 out." They left it to the flip of a coin; Bing won. By last week, moreover, almost all of the Met's supporting singers were snug in new contracts...
...claws, still worlds away from Shakespeare's Serpent of Old Nile. Caesar, finding her a petulant child, leaves her a queen and woman, with a new authority and cruelty. But it is Caesar who really dominates the stage: a Caesar who is neither the image on a Roman coin nor the stern voice of the Roman Capitol, but a great and contradictory man molded into a peculiarly Shavian hero. Shaw's Caesar is much more the clement conqueror than the model for dictators, a man above meanness and resentment, with a lonely rather than a loving heart...
...your article "Where You Coin', But?" [TIME, Oct. 3] about a naked steak and a P.C. and the slang used by our teen-agers...
...supervise" religion. Archbishop Josef Beran, interned in his palace since June, was quoted by Western diplomats in Prague as saying that the new laws were "treason to the Christian faith." Beran was grieved that some priests had given public support to the bills, had been "bought for Judas coin...