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...should anybody want to meet Mr. Eliot-even halfway? More particularly, why should Americans bother about this Missouri-born American who talks like an Englishman, has not lived in the U.S. for the past 36 years, and gave up his U.S. citizenship to become a British subject...
...Very curious," said the Englishman. "First the man calls out a number, and you put a bean on it. Then he calls another number and you put another bean on it . . . until at last a lady screams, 'Bingo!' and everybody else cries,'Aw, hell!' Very curious place, America...
Last week the baffled Englishman would have found America even more curious. The latest radio craze was Tune-O, an air version of bingo with a touch of Stop the Music thrown in. Players must first guess the name of the tune being played from a numbered list supplied by the sponsors, then match the tune's number with an accompanying bingo-type card. The first to plot five numbers in a row calls the radio station, screams "Tune-O!" and waits for the prizes to roll in: $1,000 in cash, jewelry, a new automobile...
...wounded and immediately gets the doting treatment of a popularity contest winner. What he does not know, and what his wardmates do know, is that he has only a few weeks to live. Hotly spurned and colorfully insulted, his fellow patients- an American, an Australian, a New Zealander, an Englishman and an African Basuto-find their sympathy giving way to acute dislike...
India-born Eric Blair, who died last fortnight (TIME, Jan. 30), was a frail, intense Englishman with an Eton education, a fine nose for humbug and a genius for exposing it. He was only 46 when he died, but in his lifetime he had seen too much of the super-humbug of totalitarianism to be complacent about it. No writer had done more to shatter the complacency of others. As George Orwell, the name he long intended to legalize, he had written a dozen books, fiction and nonfiction. Only six have been published in the U.S., but all of them...