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Died. Julius Salter Elias, Viscount Southwood, 73, onetime London errand boy who became head of Britain's whop ping Odhams Press (the London Daily Herald, The People, John Butt, News Review*), and a peer; of a heart attack; in London. Stumpy, colorless, hard-work ing (often 16 hours a day), "The Little Man" let his publications maintain conflicting editorial policies, specialized in building them to million-plus circulation...
...steady, colorless man with too much honor and intellect to be a demagogue, too little fire to be an orator, too little hair and too few mannerisms to be spectacular, King fits his country's mood and pattern...
Writes Barmine: "That evening the legation staff gathered as usual to hear the Moscow broadcast. We exchanged small talk and even tried to make a few jokes. Nobody dared mention what was upper most in his mind. Over the air came the colorless voice of the Moscow spokesman : the subway was progressing nicely; a Party conference was in session. He read off figures concerning the housing campaign and the latest total of ore production. And then, without any change of tone: 'Gamarnik, ex-member of the Central Committee of the Party, fearing that his anti-Soviet machinations would...
Immediate editorial reaction to the Report of the University Committee on the Objectives of a General Education in a Free Society in local and New York papers has been largely colorless and unanimously approving. Representatives of foremost educational thought in America, leaders at Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Chicago, and St. Johns, polled by the SERVICE NEWS this week replied in a majority of cases that they had not yet studied the Harvard proposals sufficiently to comment...
...means the resounding triumph that the canny, colorless Prime Minister had achieved in 1940, when his Liberal Party won 178 of the 245 House of Commons seats. The electorate, while approving King for a sixth term, took the opportunity to admonish him at the same time. He won a clear, overall majority, but it was by a thin margin. For that margin of victory he had old stand-by Quebec to thank. That French Canadian province, the Liberal Party's counterpart of the U.S. Democratic Party's "solid south," handed him most of its 65 seats...