Word: london
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slender, well-tailored Irishman last week awakened painful memories in Britain. In the London Sunday Times, 62-year-old Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, veteran (37 years) career diplomat and sometime (1953-57) Permanent Under Secretary at the Foreign Office, began publication of excerpts from his forthcoming book, The Inner Circle. The first: an eyewitness account of the momentous meeting of the European powers at Munich in September 1938. Kirkpatrick was then first secretary of the British embassy in Berlin, and delegated to help Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain deal with Hitler...
Early in Queen Victoria's long reign. Sir Benjamin Hall, her Chief Lord of Woods and Forests, promised Britain's Parliament "a king of clocks, the biggest and best in the world, within sight and sound of the heart of London." He kept his promise grandly. London's great Westminster clock was soon overseeing London's pace, keeping accurate time within a tenth of a second a day; one of its few respites from clockwork occurred in World War II when its works were shaken during a German air raid. One morning last week, when...
Died. Sax Rohmer (pen name for Arthur Sarsfield Ward), about 76, creator of 20th century English fiction's most durable villain: Fu Manchu; after long illness ; in London. Modeled on a mysterious Chinese Rohmer spotted one night in 1913 in the Limehouse fog, wily, sinister Fu Manchu outwitted his Anglo-Saxon pursuers in and out of 13 books and the most exotic parts of the world, assembled a memorable team of Oriental ogres to dispose of his victims, lured such connoisseurs of evil as Boris Karloff and Warner (Charlie Chan) Oland to portray him on screen, almost died horribly...
...dogging all the old folk - a dotty lady novelist, a rich London brewer, a withered poet and a wardful of grannies in a charity hospital-is the intimate awareness of death. A name slips from an aging memory; an obituary read with morning toast turns out to be that of a friend with whom one was to have had tea. To make things worse, a plague of mysterious telephone calls begins. A man's voice delivers a chilling message: "Remember you must die." Police investigate but uncover nothing; suggestions are made of mass hysteria. The plague spreads; old scoffers...
...Ronde-styled plot revolves around a desiccated young country solicitor named George Links who is bored with his marriage. To get away to London one night a week, he pretends to be in psychoanalysis; actually, he rents an attic room in the home of England's most famous literary evangelist and quickly manages to seduce the evangelist's wife. After that, the book turns into an old-fashioned game of musical beds: George's wife, learning of the affair, permits herself to be seduced by his oldest friend; the friend's mistress comforts herself by propositioning...