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Last week, seven years after her death, Londoners saw the first show of her work. (Her famed brother, swashbuckling portrait-painter Augustus John, had helped promote it.) The sad portraits, flower pieces and cat studies seemed as limited and dim as reflections in a cup of tea, but visitors found them strangely moving...
...that breach in the cultural ramparts, a trashy flood poured in from Canada. Bookstalls unloaded over 6,000,000 comics, westerns, detectives and sex pulps. The comics, full of rocket men and bosomy girls, were the biggest surprise of all; British children's comics are mainly animal or flower stories. London street hawkers took in up to ?15 a day. Customers paid up to 25. 6d. (50?) for such gems as Vivid Confessions and How to Write Intimate Love Letters. Outraged British publishers couldn't prove it, but they felt sure that some of this Canadian flood came...
...size of Viet Nam), which wants to be a separate member of the Federation. The French, who had agreed to all other Viet Nam demands, said no. Ho walked out of the conference, and while his guerrillas continued to kill French soldiers almost daily, holed up in his flower-littered suite at Paris' swank Royal Monceau Hotel...
...Harrison ("Best-Dressed") Williams was back in Capri after long exile in Manhattan and Palm Beach. The tireless, chin-up hostess and amateur flower gardener flew across, picked up her old chauffeur in Paris en route. Soon word came back to the New York World-Telegram's society editor that "Mona" was "seen daily being driven through the streets of Capri in first one, then another of her long, sleek and luxurious limousines...
...Little Flower almost did it. When he recommended to the UNRRA Council, meeting in Geneva's League of Nations Palace, that UNRRA cease operations in Europe by Oct. 1 for lack of cash, he stirred up a whirlwind of protest. Seven small nations, backed by Russia, pleaded that UNRRA aid be continued. Said Poland's Hilary Mine: "Those who suggest liquidation remind me of architects who, after great effort, build a house but stop short of a roof...