Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, one of the King's Birthday Honors finally went to 75-year-old Poet Walter De La Mare, myth-&-mystic immortal, who became a Companion of Honor. Novelist Elizabeth Bowen became a Commander of the British Empire. William Gilliatt, president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (who had just been named attendant specialist to Princess Elizabeth), got a friendly vote of confidence when he was made a Knight Bachelor...
...Duke of Edinburgh, who turned 27 last week, not only got the Freedom of the City of London, but was admitted to membership in the City's Worshipful Company of Fishmongers. He was also appointed a personal aide-de-camp to his well-known father...
...London, Lady Astor, as determinedly dry as the late "Pussyfoot" Johnson, auctioned off some gin to raise funds for a memorial to a friend. She peddled the treacherous stuff at $60 a bottle. But her conscience was presumably at ease, since she began her pitch with a rousing temperance lecture...
...music lovers ever have any trouble appreciating Artur Schnabel, the great pianist. But in London last week, even 66-year-old Pianist Schnabel himself was afraid that many were going to have trouble with Schnabel, the composer. His atonal First Symphony is so formidable that he thought London audiences and critics ought to get a warmup on it before its premiere. So he invited them to the final rehearsal...
...huge, unlit Albert Hall, while cleaners dusted, the critics and the curious watched as Sir Malcolm Sargent stopped the London Philharmonic Orchestra for the 18th time to cry "No, no! ... Back to bar 175 again." Finally, looking at his watch, he muttered, "Only two minutes more. My God, I must have this again." Composer Schnabel, bent over his score, nodded his huge, bristly head with sympathy. Two years ago, the Minneapolis Symphony had taken 25 rehearsals before it dared to give Schnabel's treacherous piece its first U.S. hearing...