Word: london
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Ireland's tosspot Playwright Brendan (The Quare Fellow) Behan, 36, bedded in a Dublin hospital after tying on a monumental jag in London (TIME, July 20), scrawled a "confession" for a Dublin Sunday newspaper. "I'm neither dead, dying, drunk nor dotty," wrote he. ". . . It is true, however, that I am an alcoholic." Why does he tipple? "First, because I like the stuff. Secondly, because I like company, and thirdly, because a pint of orange or lemon juice is twice the price of a pint of stout...
Polish-born Marie Rambert studied briefly in Paris to be a physician, gravitated to the dance because of her admiration in the early 1900s for the U.S.'s flamboyant Isadora Duncan. After dancing in the famed Diaghilev company, she settled in London and opened her own school. To it thronged pupils who later graduated to Founder Rambert's company and then to careers in larger companies-Choreographers Frederick Ashton, Antony Tudor, Andrée Howard, Agnes de Mille. Swaddled in wrinkled black tights and shapeless pink top. Teacher Rambert would roam the practice room correcting ("Long the arms...
...less serious but more widely ballyhooed British dance product was also on display in London last week: the first ballet of Playwright Noel Coward, titled London Morning. The 32-minute work was commissioned by Britain's Festival Ballet and was suggested to him, said Coward solemnly, by the nursery jingle, "Pussycat, pussycat, where have you been?" To a tinkly, tearoom blend of Coward tunes, the curtain rose on a fantasticated façade of Buckingham Palace, at which an ice-cream-suited American was directing a battery of cameras. In quick succession, an Indian girl, a trio of tarts...
...corporate kin to the daily, stately Times of London...
...anti-cancer defenses break down is, in most cases, unknown. Many authorities accept the idea of some hereditary susceptibility. Sometimes there are easy, if superficial, explanations. The combination of a chemical carcinogen (cancer-causing factor) with physical irritation is plainly villainous. Cancer of the scrotum among London chimney sweeps was described by Percivall Pott in 1775. The disease disappeared when the sweeps were taught to wash themselves clean of the carcinogenic soot. Lung cancer from inhaling chromate-ore dusts and nickel-refining fumes can be prevented by the wearing of masks, coupled with adequate ventilation. Even the cancer-causing tobacco...