Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prisoner at Versailles. Back in London while the Normandy invasion was on, she watched her boss, "beset by a thousand worries . . . Always the General had Monty gnawing at his nerves . . . As a SHAEF staff member, as part of the official family and as secretary-driver to General Eisenhower I grew to dislike the very name of Montgomery. In my personal opinion, he gave the Supreme Commander more worry than any other one individual in the entire Allied command...
After that, the Western envoys (Smith, Britain's Frank Roberts and France's Yves Chataigneau) took off for Paris where the U.N. General Assembly was about to meet. All the other principals converged on Paris-from Washington came Secretary of State Marshall, from London Ernie Bevin, from Berlin General Lucius Clay. The visitors were joined by France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman. The chief decision they would have to make was whether to continue the delightful talks with Molotov in Paris (if he should decide to come), or whether to throw the Berlin issue into...
...answers the Literary Supplement of the Times of London in a recent book review, "but then, no other nation has so much in itself to admire." Whereupon, using a collection of essays (The Character of England, Oxford; Clarendon Press) as a point of departure, the Times proceeds to write a forceful essay of its own on the British...
McIndoe's job required much more than surgery; he had to refit his patients for normal life. He insisted on first-name familiarity among patients and hospital staff. He sent groups of his flyers on trips to London, with tickets to the theater and reservations at night clubs. He made sure that his patients had pretty nurses...
...ticketseller at London's Sadler's Wells Theater, the words themselves made music: "Sorry, sir, no seats-we're a success." For a fortnight, Londoners had been flocking to hear the new opera of lanky Benjamin Britten (TIME, Feb. 16)-his fourth in four years...