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Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, bearded by the press and attempting an explanation of British tolerance of demi-bared bosoms in the cinema: "Perhaps it is because we have a longer past. We know that often in our history women have worn low-cut dresses, and it doesn't shock us that Jane Russell looks more like a woman than any woman ought to look...
London critics packed off to Birmingham last week for the opening of a play by Author -Professor -Philosopher -BBC "Brains Truster" Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, who once asserted he could "explain anything to anyone." Just before the curtain went up, Playwright Joad stepped out on stage and informed the critics: "It's an awful bad play. If I were you I'd go see the film across the street." After listening to assorted maunderings on marriage, Freud, religion, the machine age and Bernard Shaw, the critics wished they had taken Joad's advice...
...editor of your page on People [TIME, Dec. 17] must be hard up for copy and cuts when he has to fall back on a 13-year-old photo of my friends Joad and Price, and serve it up as current gossip. This photo was taken in a private museum in Chiswick, London, England, on Sept...
Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, 54-year-old philosopher and British Information-Pleaser, whose photogenic satyr-beard has long been familiar to British newspaper readers, displayed a little-known side of himself to the public. Occasion: a swimming party at a new youth hostel, which Philosopher Joad ceremoniously opened after an august arrival on horseback...
Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, Brit ain's bubbling, goat-bearded ex-pacifist philosopher and mainstay of the BBC "Brains Trust" (British equivalent of In formation Please), was invited to speak at Cambridge University on international affairs, was greeted with tear and smoke bombs by student rioters who aimed to prevent him from speaking. Reason: in 1933, Joad had spoken at Cambridge in defense of the Oxford Union's once-famed resolution-"Not to Fight for King and Country...