Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Another notable decision of the week: the reluctant French National Assembly voted, 297 to 289, to join (with reservations) the U.S., Britain and the Benelux countries in the Six-Power London program for Germany...
...drawings were accepted-and the museum never had reason for regrets. Topolski's tortuous but versatile line, which had led him from Warsaw to London, eventually made him one of Britain's best war artists and earned him an international reputation as a caricaturist besides. Last week Topolski's latest oils and drawings were on exhibition in London's Leicester Galleries and his caricatures brightened the pages of the current Vogue. The sketches (of Churchill, Daladier, Paul Ramadier and Bertrand Russell, among others) were better than his frightening, jumbled paintings of battles and blitz, courts...
...Russians, too, probably have supersonic airplanes. According to the London Daily Mail last week, the U.S.S.R. has developed a model with "a top speed approaching 760 m.p.h." The Daily Mail attributed Russian progress to 50 Rolls-Royce Nene jet engines which Britain sold them about a year...
Knowing Shaw was a hard man with a dollar, the agency's London office thought Shaw's endorsement might be obtained by "a combination of audacity and a large sum of money" ($4,000 was suggested). New York suggested London try "audacity ... leaving the money for him to bring up." Audacity worked. Shaw first repudiated the quote-it was "manifest nonsense," he said, to call Ireland a land of peace-then he composed a substitute...
...minor but respectable talents are not as successful in The Foolish Gentlewoman as in its predecessors. The novel begins promisingly enough. At Chipping Lodge on Chipping Hill, a pleasant, grassy spot eight miles from London, lives "sentimental, affectionate, uncritical Mrs. Brocken," together with mementos of her younger years and miscellaneous members of her family. Mrs. Brocken "had adored her husband and was very fond of her French peppermill. An old watering-can was dear to her because she remembered seeing the gardener use it on her mother's rose-beds, and a new alarm-clock, because...