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...like a British weekend, is casual, slow-paced and elastic. If the script calls for a minute of silence or three hours of steady bagpiping, the BBC's Third Program* (TIME, Nov. 4) is only too happy to oblige. British broadcasters and British listeners have no horror of dead air or of overtime. In the U.S., such dawdling is unthinkable: a production is adaptable to radio only if it can be hustled through on an hour, a half-hour or a 15-minute schedule, with carefully timed pauses for the sponsor's plugs...
...Wife Ethel du Pont (both in absentia) got firm tuts from a police court judge. In July they had been charged with racing each other in their cars; in August, they had got their cases postponed, twice. Now they failed to come to court. Declared the judge after a half-hour wait: if they didn't turn up next fortnight, he would really have to send...
...Little Show. He was also putting the finishing touches on a new show for Jane. ''But she's pretty fussy," says Ace. "We offered her a 7 p.m. spot, and she wouldn't take it because it interfered with her cocktails. Then we suggested a half-hour program, once a week, but she was afraid of the audience. Finally CBS said to give her anything she wanted -so she picked an afternoon spot five days a week, and no audiences. Now that I've got the show ready for her, she's talking about...
...leaving the leased area, and if the Finns paid $50 (U.S.) for each train. The Finns installed wooden shutters on the cars, but it was not enough; the Russians held out for steel shutters. Then the Finns discovered that inspection delays were cutting the time saved to a mere half-hour. So they decided not to run the trains, after all. "Well," said one Finn, "in only 48 years we'll get the whole peninsula back...
Attlee still talked of "limited emergency." To get more coal (agreed by all to be the No. 1 need for the revival of Britain), he proposed to miners that "there should be, as an emergency measure, for a limited period, an extra half-hour's work per day." To place and keep workers (including "spivs and other drones") in essential industries, "it will be necessary to resume to a limited extent the use of powers of direction." To reduce Britain's projected 1948 overseas military establishment of 1,087,000 men, Attlee proposed a cut of only...