Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seem trite to mention it after these years of austerity in Great Britain, but not until I read London's rationed four and six-page daily newspapers did I fully appreciate the great amount of information available to the U.S. public through the American press. In turn, one of the healthiest signs of Britain's recovery is the present criticism in Parliament and the press of the government policy of treating newsprint as a commodity without further significance to a democratic society. Under current newsprint allocations Britain's newspapers cannot provide adequate news services...
...London, where a busy summer had already spawned half a dozen hits, the new season began briskly with what looked like another success by prolific Terence Rattigan (The Winslow Boy, O Mistress Mine). Called Playbill, it was a program of two one-acters: The Browning Version, a study of an embittered schoolmaster, and A Harlequinade, which pokes fun at highbrow theater. Rattigan, whose annual royalties pile up to about $100,000, also has a new drama about Alexander the Great scheduled for a winter opening, and is working on a comedy...
...made his way on scholarships through Eton ("I wasn't awfully happy there") and Oxford ("The people were much cleverer than one"). He stayed on at Oxford as a lecturer, then (at 34) Fellow and Dean of Wadham College. In 1947, he left for a professorship at London University...
Died. Rupert D'Oyly Carte, 71, millionaire owner of the world-famed D'Oyly Carte Opera Co.; in London. Son of the company's founder Richard (who brought and held together for 21 years the explosively hostile Gilbert & Sullivan collaboration, and made them the biggest money-making team in theatrical history), Rupert inherited his father's flair for show business and real estate, held controlling interests in London's Savoy, Berkeley and Claridge's hotels, the Savoy Theater, Simpson's Restaurant...
Died. Hamar Greenwood, first Viscount Greenwood of Holbourne, 78, Canadian-born British industrialist, last Chief Secretary for Ireland (1920-22): in London. A tough fighter against Irish independence, Lord Greenwood employed the Black & Tans in an attempt to crush the rebellious Sinn Feiners, for years after his retirement lived in fear of assassination...