Word: garvin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sunday Punch. For 34 years, until he quit in 1942 after a quarrel with the Astors, hawk-nosed Editor J. L. Garvin had thrust his greatness upon the Observer and thumped British breakfast tables with his stubborn leaders, often three or four columns long. "The English Sunday," said a rival, "would be incomplete without his weekly thunderstorm." When Garvin parted with the Astors, Fleet Streeters bet that the Observer would collapse. But today, a team rather than a one-man show, the Observer is a sounder paper, if a less disturbing...
...Evelyn Garvin's story, "If you Should Go to Venice," comes off too, but for different reasons. It is really nothing more than a vignette, which through the author's sensitivity and ability to project, keeps a unity of mood and feeling. Though this work is limited in scope and almost completely unexciting, it does accomplish the difficult task of getting into a child's mind and making the child stay human. "Apprentice" fails in describing children. The little boy involved is repeatedly and annoyingly referred to as "the cube-shaped boy," a bit of unexplained whimsy that...
Died. James Louis Garvin, 79, longtime (34 years) editor of the conservative London Observer, whose lengthy (average 2,500 words) weekly articles carried tremendous political influence, friend of the mighty (eulogized Winston Churchill: "One of the four or five great figures of the last 100 years of ... journalism"), onetime editor in chief of the Encyclopaedia Britannica; in the house where another great political writer (Edmund Burke) once lived, at Beaconsfield, England...
Despite thick weather, First Lieut. John T. Garvin of the kibitzing B-29 estimated that he had seen 1,200 U.S. planes in the air. The strikes continued for nine hours, so the Mitschermen must have flown 2,000 sorties or more...
...names on the plaque are in gold: Correspondent Mel Jacoby, killed in a plane crash at MacArthur's headquarters in Australia, and the MARCH OF TIME's Harry Garvin, killed in action with the RAF in the Middle East. Across the top of the plaque are the words: "For the Freedom of all People...