Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, England...
...came in; he just grinned. Plump Vincent Auriol was an old campaigner himself. "Toward the end," a member of his staff confided, "he was giggling." In Rio de Janeiro, 0 Mundo, called Harry Truman's victory "the most sensational news since the launching of the atomic bomb." In London (though U.S. shares dipped), British stocks went up. London's socialist Tribune took credit for not being too greatly surprised, republished a July cartoon showing Harry Truman feeling fine...
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (Universal), from the British thriller of the same name,* is told in a despairing cinematic monotone almost as dismal as its title. A beached merchant sailor (Burt Lancaster) cracks the skull of a London pubkeeper, for no very good reason, and escapes the bobbies by climbing into the bedroom of a prim nurse (Joan Fontaine). With more kindness than gumption, she concludes that a young man so desperately weary is worth protecting. From the moment Nurse Fontaine makes this silly decision, her fate is hitched to the criminal's inevitable decline & fall...
Meredith lived in his little house at Box Hill near London, climbed the hill at dawn to watch the sunrise, went to the City one day each week to his office. When the authors whose manuscripts he accepted talked over their books with him, they were never told his name: he was referred to at his publishers' as "the reader." His first 16 books (until Diana of the Crossways) were failures...
Best Friend. In London, Wally Farey, fined $4 for keeping a horse in his boardinghouse room, sadly explained: "I was lonely...