Word: kingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ALMOST since the day he became king in 1951, Belgium's young Baudouin has been something less than an idol to his subjects. Dominated by his father, ex-King Leopold III, Baudouin was stiff and shy, seldom made his public feel any warmth toward him. Then came a three-week tour of the U.S.-without father. And a stunning surprise for the Belgians when Baudouin returned to Brussels last week. See FOREIGN NEWS, The Americanized King...
Higher up, they are caught in the open as the Chinese counterattack in waves, and when morning comes, Lieut. Joseph G. demons Jr. (Gregory Peck), in charge of King Company, subtracts about 60 casualties from his original force of 135 fighting men, and grimly thanks God that 62 men of Love Company will be coming up any minute. But when Love Company does arrive, some hours late, it brings only ten men; the rest are dead, wounded or missing...
...times Packard is patently misinformed, as when he asserts that class structures are more flexible in Britain than in the U.S., and he over-sentimentalizes the American past, suggesting that only yesterday Horatio Alger was king. "Status striving" to him seems to be a modern menace, and he writes of it with scant mention of Thorstein ("conspicuous consumption") Veblen or of the massive, fascinating and often exhilarating social climbs described by Balzac, Stendhal, Jane Austen...
Because he likes sea birds and dislikes Britain's tax strictures, Author T. H. White (The Once and Future King) lives on low-tax Alderney, a 3-sq.-mi. dot of an island in the English Channel. There he flaps about in baggy fisherman's corduroys, roams the beaches with a red setter named Jenny, and drives about in a mud-clotted, war-surplus Hillman. He gets along well with the islanders, but fumes at the excessive pace (30 m.p.h.) of Al-derney's three cabs. He seldom ventures from the island these days, but during...
...Kraft Music Hall (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).-Dave King, a British pantomimist with style, wit, and a habit of breaking into agreeable song, has taken over for Milton Berle...