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...treasures Frank Sinatra, who almost never slugs a photographer unless another one is there to snap the scene. (Eden Roc, in turn, is a Harwyn offshoot; New York nightclubs sometimes seem to multiply like amoebae.) The Stork itself is no longer particularly chic, and even the end of its feud with Walter Winchell has done little for either party. El Morocco, which still retains its zebra-striped glamour, is nitery-by-appointment to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor...
...says you're punk? That's what you're askin' them to do-give in, lose all dignity, all manhood, make punks out of them." That somehow hit home. Minutes later the Sen ators moved into another room to caucus about continuing the feud. When they returned, one shrugged...
...Hidden Feud. With a novelist's relish, Insider Snow then described one of the unknown battles of wartime Britain: the feud between Sir Henry Tizard (rhymes with lizard), "the best scientific mind that in England has ever applied itself to war," and German-raised F. A. Lindemann (later Lord Cherwell), right-hand science adviser to Winston Churchill. As Snow tells it, the fate of England all but hung on the enmity between these two strong...
...solid year, he argued so savagely for his own gadgety notions (infrared detection of enemy planes, aerial parachute mines) that at one point the committee broke up. Costly Victory. Tizard pressed on, and radar was ready in time to help win the Battle of Britain. But the feud had just begun. When Churchill became Prime Minister in 1940, Lindemann forced Tizard out of his job as the Air Ministry's science adviser. In 1942 the new Baron Cherwell pressed for strategic bombing of such targets as workers' housing to cripple Germany. Asked to study Cherwell's statistics...
...first two of the three lectures were a novelistic account of the "closed politics" in the historic feud between Sir Henry Tizard and F. A. Lindemann, Churchill's scientific adviser before and through the Second World War. The tale was told, as you might expect, superbly. Snow is a sensitive and gifted man, and a personal knowledge of the scientists involved (as well as how the British government works) made the narrative more alive than it could possibly have been in the hands of a historian. This historic parable was meant to illustrate that, in modern industrial societies, a handful...