Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Berlin's Gatow airfield to R.A.F.'s London headquarters last week went a cry for reinforcements to fight off saboteurs. Thousands of starlings flocking to Gatow were menacing the props of airlift planes. Airmen knew that HQ had just the weapons to handle them-a squadron of fierce falcons trained to keep Britain's airfields clear of gulls, plovers, rooks and other airborne pests...
...Labor government, many of whose members are middle-class intellectuals, is acutely aware of the problem. So are Britain's social scientists. In a report published recently, the Nuffield Foundation (endowed by upper middle-class Motor Magnate Lord Nuffield) disclosed a grant of $80,000 to the London School of Economics for an exhaustive five-year study of the middle-class problem. Captained by Caradog Jones, M.A., a retired middle-class professor whose last big job was a survey of the depressed Merseyside area (around Liverpool), the researchers will study not only present problems but "how people rise...
...Wednesday evening the London String Quartet performed Beethoven's three Rasoumowski Quartets in Sanders Theater, and those who were terminate through to the best concert of the year. One of the finest of its kind in the world, the group certainly confirmed its reputation in the different program...
After a year of intensive planning, the Boston Repertory has emerged as a permanent professional theater like London's Old Vic. According to a brochure circulated by the players, the group will offer "provocative plays, completely cast, and produced in accordance with the highest professional standards...
...Star. In London, Amateur Actress Beryl Lund complained that she had been suspended from her government job on suspicion of being a Communist, after she had appeared in a play called What's Left...