Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Namely. In London, the Times warned the town of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllandysiliogogogoch, Wales, that it had a close challenger: a correspondent had discovered a hilltop in New Zealand called Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu...
...During those five days," he said, "the New York Times published just over 2,000 individual stories. In making this check, the stock table was counted as one story whereas reports from London and Berlin of the same situation were counted as separate stories. Of these 2,068 stories we calculate that 207, or 10%, would have lent themselves to some phase of television . . . Fully half of [these] were in the sports category . . . Only . . . eleven appeared on Page One and it is doubted that more than six would have been good viewing...
What's needed, concluded the London Daily Express, is a new name for television-"some catchy, friendly word which can be called over the garden fence without sounding silly." Even the inventive U.S. had been unable to think up anything better than video...
Readers blinked their eyes and looked again; there, in Lord Beaverbrook's arch-Tory London Evening Standard, in a column-long leader, was a eulogy of white-topped "Mr. A. J. Cummings . . . the distinguished columnist of the Liberal Party who writes in the News Chronicle. He is a warrior in defense of liberty, a crusader in the cause of justice, freedom and righteousness...
...Boyd Neel wanted to be a concert pianist, but gave up after one school concert. He studied medicine, got his first job in 1929 as house surgeon in London's St. George Hospital. Meanwhile he had taught himself music theory, joined an amateur orchestra for summer tours in Europe. At Salzburg, he once persuaded Bruno Walter to let him sit in his orchestra, to study Walter's ways...