Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invited 1,156 Hyderabadis to dinner. Each one paid, according to the established custom, a door fee in gold and silver worth $50. The total take, $57,800, would pay his personal food bill for 395 years. Says his caterer, who was once maitre d'hotel at London's Grosvenor House: "The food he consumes in a day costs less than two bob [40?]." His presents are far from lavish. Last month his British adviser, Sir Walter Monckton, sent Richard Beaumont, a young secretary, to Hyderabad for some papers. As a gesture of gratitude the Nizam handed Beaumont...
...London, George Bernard Shaw's advice of the week was to avoid war by producing a dictionary of political terms, in which the meaning of each word would be made quite clear. "The matter is extremely urgent," declared Shaw. ". . . Negotiation is impossible unless the parties use the same words for the same things and understand what the words mean . . . I myself find it impossible to make myself understood . . . Even liars need a language that will enable them to lie unambiguously...
...psychiatrists have offered their services to the world's politicians. Last week in London the psychiatrists, psychologists and educators attending the International Congress on Mental Health (TIME, Aug. 23) got around to the vexing subject of "world citizenship and group relations."* Unless war is prevented, Cornell University Psychiatrist Carl Binger told the delegates, "there will not be any world to be citizens...
...congress, hopefully standing ready to do what it could, formed a World Federation for Mental Health. Its ambitious aim: to gain for mental hygienists a larger role in determining relations between governments. W.F.M.H. will cooperate with such United Nations groups as WHO and UNESCO. Russia was not represented at London, but will be invited to join...
Last week London's Marriage Guidance Clinic presented to the International Congress on Mental Health (see above), a "little Kinsey Report" based on a study of 1,000 married couples. Some of the findings : more than half had "basic sex problems"; one-fourth showed "gross sex ignorance"; only 25 had read a book of sexual instruction; almost one-third of the wives were unsatisfied sexually...