Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Times, as rumor had it. The Times gave up that idea two months ago. Said Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger: "There's not going to be a Paris edition, there's not going to be a Berlin edition, there's not going to be a London edition, there's not going to be a Peking edition...
...both editorial and business experience, as his "executive assistant." He had also purchased a new paper mill. And within a month, the Times had signed on 25 new staffers, was quietly organizing them into reporter-photographer teams. Stringbean-shaped U.P. man Phil Ault, who had worked with Pinkley in London and North Africa, had started pounding a Times police beat-traditional prep school for prospective city editors in a strange town...
Died. Maud Alice ("Emerald"), Lady Cunard, seventyish, famed Chicago-born hostess of Edwardian England's literary & artistic set, and later a boon companion of Edward VIII and Wally Simpson; of pleurisy and cancer; in London. A sometime intimate friend of Novelist George Moore and Symphony Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, Emerald married Steamship Heir Sir Bache Edward Cunard in 1895, came to view with imperturbability the diatribes of her ultra-radical daughter Nancy...
...London last week, Oilman Ralph K. Davies sealed the deal that he hoped would make his American Independent Oil Co. (TIME, Sept. 1) one of the biggest U.S. producers in the Middle East. Said Davies: "A forward-looking . . . chapter in the history of oil ... The first time a large-scale oil operation has been undertaken in the Middle East by independents...
...some acute and saddened critics it has seemed that De la Mare's poetry belonged to an age that is. gone for good. Wrote J. Middleton Murry last spring: "A kind of disorganization seems to have overtaken poetry. 'London Bridge has fallen down.' Perhaps De la Mare was the last man to get safely across, before the first direct hit was scored upon...