Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fabulous Failure. In 1914 Pyke, a Cambridge graduate, walked into the London Daily Chronicle and asked for a job. German armies were then surging through Belgium and the editor wryly agreed to hire Pyke if he could get a report from inside Germany. Seriously and logically Pyke set about journeying to the enemy capital...
Moved: Visitor Joe Louis & wife; from a fashionable Park Lane apartment in London to other diggings. The Park Lane suite ($360 a week) had its advantages-three living rooms, two dining rooms, six bedrooms, seven servants and a butler-but the Louises found it chilly...
...Prague, the Ministry of Information warned foreign correspondents to "rely mainly on official sources" in reporting the news from Communist-captured Czechoslovakia (see INTERNATIONAL).Next day, outright censorship began: foreign radiomen lost their broadcasting privileges, and 27 foreign publications (including TIME, LIFE, the Chicago Tribune, the London Daily Mail and Daily Mirror) were banned from the country...
...play gets its best results by reaching not across the centuries but across the Irish Sea: it does a juicy job on a London chatter columnist whose skin is even thicker than his skull. Unfortunately the Londoner, like much else in the play, turns up for no reason-and turns up twice...
John Osborne, chief of TIME'S London Bureau, tells how TIME coverage differs from ordinary reporting...