Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Raimund von Hofmannsthal, 33, a member of TIME Inc.'s London staff, son of the late famed Austrian librettist, Hugo von Hofmannsthal (Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier); and Lady Elizabeth Paget, 22, trainbearer to Queen Elizabeth at her coronation; his second (first wife: Vincent Astor's sister, Alice); in London...
...London Star contented itself with publishing a long article by an anonymous writer who once lived in the U. S., beginning...
...morning after the King and Queen arrived on U. S. soil (see p. 75), the London Times published a 32-page "United States Number" as a supplement to its regular edition. The 10,000 copies sent to the U. S. were snatched up in three hours, as amusing souvenirs, and the Times had to run off another edition of 10,700. At home, Britons studied their copies carefully, learned much about life in the U. S. The Times covered 150 years of U. S. history in four columns, which was 3 9/10 more columns than its issue of June...
...London last winter the Oxford Group of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman was guided to apply to the Board of Trade for incorporation as a limited company. Reason: it was legally nonexistent, could not collect a ?500 legacy willed to it (TIME, March 20). When the Group's application was made known, wigs hit the green. The Oxford Union, the Oxford Hebdomadal Council and A. P. Herbert, M. P. for Oxford, protested that the Group's use of the name Oxford was misleading. Numerous other M.P.s got into the row, pro and con. Supporters pointed out that...
Latest of such stories is The Wings of the Morning, a 500-page fantasy by a 28-year-old Englishman who works for a London printing firm, flies a plane, likes good food and wine, fast horses and cars. His first published novel, The Wings of the Morning, tells of a medical genius who becomes equally famed as a best-selling satirist. When his young wife, a beautiful Communist, is killed in an accident, the doctor retires snarling to a cottage, makes friends with a philosopher-cop, gets mixed up in the strange suicide of an egomaniac artist, who personifies...