Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little speech, Correspondent Hugh Hessell Tiltman of the London Daily Herald was brutally frank. "I must sound a warning to you Japanese," he told the Nagoya Chamber of Commerce. "The only yardstick by which you measure world reaction towards yourselves is the extremely friendly attitude of the occupation personnel, but there are other places in the world where people are by no means inclined to forget so soon what has happened. I've just come back from Malaya and I must say it'll be some time before Japanese can safely do business there...
...help make his beloved Ottawa a capital "worthy of . . . the Canada that is to be," Mackenzie King pleaded in the House of Commons last week for an initial town-planning appropriation of $2½ million. Ottawa, said he, should be to Canada what London is to England, Paris to France, Washington to the U.S. For good measure, he rang in the Athens of Pericles and the Rome of the Caesars. His clincher: "Canada may have a future greater than that of the countries I have mentioned . . .* It has possibilities of development that no other country begins to possess...
Dawn & Lightning. Denounced by Hitler as the most degenerate of degenerate artists, Kokoschka fled from Prague to London. Now, though he keeps his flat in London, he prefers to wander from city to city, "an immensely free citizen of the world," painting as the dawn breaks around him, or on-stormy nights when the lightning plays. Last week, two of his latest works were on display in a Manhattan gallery. They were portraits, one of a bemused art collector, the other of a wistful clown, standing against a gaudy carnival background, gazing over the head of an absurd little...
...pretty sister (Jinx) and a fireball serve, made himself unpopular at Wimbledon last week. In the semifinals, he alienated the fans by kneeling with his head down on the grass like a Mohammedan at sunset, or just lying prone at the baseline to rest for the next point. London's press arched an eyebrow at his "curious mannerisms" and "irritating demeanor." Explained Falkenburg: "I was tired...
...without making a move for any ball he couldn't easily reach. As the match went on, he glared at linesmen when they flubbed decisions and took kicks at the ball when he missed easy shots. He fell a great many times and got up very slowly. London's Daily Telegraph tried to be charitable: "Should we not be nearer the truth in regarding his behavior more in the light of an overgrown schoolboy than as a schemer trying to steal a rest...