Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Next to London's weather, the thing that bothered Californians most was the look on Londoners' faces; to West Coasters they seemed vaguely uninterested in life. One night on a London bus, a Los Angeles miler turned a somersault and hung upside down from two straps. "It worked," he boasted later. "Their mouths dropped open all the way down to their knees...
Block That Rumor. Nevertheless, the commentators had to comment (Drew Pearson confidently began a column: "Here is the inside story . . ."). The London Times's diplomatic correspondent wrote (in London) that "The Moscow talks yesterday advanced a stage nearer their conclusion, which cannot now be much longer delayed." The Manchester Guardian's stay-at-home diplomatic correspondent was also pawing the air: "It has been felt in some quarters that the meeting might prove decisive, but there is nothing to show that it did, in fact, produce any results...
...were not visible to newsmen, the correspondents took to framing their cables in advance, leaving blanks to be filled in after "meeting ended " and "meeting lasted ." To make sure that it got out such news-or any real news-first, the A.P. booked a long-distance telephone line to London for three hours every meeting night...
Most artists had been content to sketch typical New York scenes-Central Park, Times Square-in gay or dramatic lights. Others had hoped to do for Manhattan what Pissarro did for Paris, Guardi for Venice and Whistler for London. Among those who had made the difficult attempt to discover Manhattan's essential qualities and translate them into art, at least four had partially succeeded...
Died. Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth, first Baron Harmsworth of Egham, 78, scholarly, Liberal younger brother of the late Tory Publishers Lords Northcliffe and Rothermere (London Daily Mail), longtime Member of Parliament (1906-22), short-time Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1919-22); in London...