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...libraries. Already in its tenth week of short-wave broadcasts over station WRUL which are beamed to Europe and the Soviet, and also in charge of a bi-monthly discussion program over WHDH, the U. N. Council is starting a new series in three weeks under the supervision of Cyril Femrite '47 devoted to review of the General Assembly's accomplishments...
...great ship's bridge, gold-braided, choleric Commodore Cyril Gordon Illingworth paced restlessly. "We'll sail at 3 p.m.," he had said confidently the day before. But for once the Queen Mary's well-disciplined crew paid no heed to their commander's orders. In a strike meeting in a drafty wharfside shed, they were listening instead to the passionate oratory of a thin, febrile man in a cheap blue raincoat and a dirty white shirt...
...Editor Cyril Connolly's Horizon is wide and highbrow. In his little (circ. 9,500) London magazine, he likes to wield a brush on big intellectual canvases. Six years ago Editor Connolly put out an all-Irish number, a year ago an all-Swiss edition. In the October issue of Horizon, Connolly paid his respects...
...Captain. Master of the Queen Mary in war, and in her return to peacetime service, is Captain Cyril Gordon Illingworth, 64. The Captain does things the way he learned that they should be done as a cadet (at one shilling a month) in white-hulled, white-topped, square-rigged ships, "with no steam at all." First of his family to follow the sea, he left his Lake District home for the long (about 100 days each way) run through the clean seas that lie between Liverpool's dirty Mersey and Rangoon's dirty Irrawaddy. Out with salt...
...bares his or her inner torments in stream-of-consciousness. Virginia Woolf carried off the trick; Toynbee doesn't. Through the dense matting of symbolism (even the choice of tea cakes, the dropping of a cup, becomes symbolic), readers may extract many meanings or none. Guesses British Critic Cyril Connolly, editor of highbrow Horizon: "And what are these figures, but expressions of a deeper truth, of cycles of spring and winter, youth and age, death and rebirth, of the Mother who must become our enemy if we are to grow...