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...posted photographs of scenes from Oxford propaganda plays. One showed a merry group of people standing beside an immense cardboard barometer. They were registering CHANGE, the magic word of M.R.A. The head of the M.R.A. ten-man press corps came forward to meet me-a tall, eager, black-browed Englishman, Author Howard himself...
...hotly debated and as certain to be passed-owners and users of Britain's land and everything "in, on, under or over the land" knew what they were up against, and it was plenty. Hereafter, a great saying fraught with the British instinct for freedom would read: "An Englishman's home is his Government's." Planners had captured the Englishman's castle...
...Bill's job has been offered to an Englishman who has never worked for a newspaper. John Duncan Miller, 44-year-old Cambridge man, onetime book publisher and architect, was a wartime colonel, now works in Chicago for the British Information Service. His tough assignment: to explain Britain to a Midwest whose loudest citizen-Colonel Robert R. McCormick's Anglophobic Chicago Tribune-doesn't want to listen. Miller was offered the new job not on the strength of his only published writing, a book of Clerihews,* but because he is a friendly fellow with a considerable awareness...
David Niven, a thin, sprightly Englishman, plays Aaron Burr, and although he does not carry a label of the variety commonly employed by political cartoonists, he is easily recognizable as the scoundrel. Burgess Meredith, as "Father of the Constitution" and name-giver to a high school in Brooklyn, does the only reasonable...
Grand opera, like port wine, is a commodity the English are in the habit of importing. No Englishman has ever written a successful opera, though young Benjamin Britten's may one day make the grade, (TIME, Aug. 19). Even good English opera singers are rare. London has long been without a topnotch opera company...