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...Britain's political Satirist George Orwell, 46 (Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four), long ailing with tuberculosis, announced his engagement to Sonia Brownell, 30, assistant editor of the highbrow Horizon, for which he has written an occasional article. No date was set, but friends hinted at a hospital wedding...
...outdated copy of Horizon, Cyril Connolly's British monthly for intellectuals. If he had lived long enough to investigate the matter, he might have wondered how Scottie Wilson, a half-educated furniture dealer turned artist, had ever made his list of the big guns in the 20th Century highbrow arsenal in the first place...
...receiving their mail is Editor Michael Hall of the London Mystery Magazine, a new, highbrow whodunit monthly. As our story said, Hall, an ex-reporter on the Manchester Guardian and a British Army veteran, got the British post office to recognize the mythical 221 B* as a real address and assign it to his forthcoming magazine...
...Reagan, a New York commercial artist, she looks like the perfect model for the perfect cover girl. To Eddie Bracken, a down-at-heels promoter, she looks like the promise of a fat commission if she can be teamed with Reagan in a television act. The problem: to persuade highbrow Miss Mayo to lend herself to such a lowbrow enterprise...
Readers of London's highbrow Horizon are triple-annealed against literary stresses. Even so, some must look twice or thrice at a clutch of verses by José Garcia Villa in the current issue. Sample...