Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week from London came a variation on the old theme of man, woman and serpent...
...Second Day. Communists paraded, crying: "Away with reaction!" Anti-Communists paraded, crying: "We will uphold party democracy! London is calling at 9 o'clock!" (This was a bitter reference to the days of Nazi occupation, when BBC broadcasts brought Czechoslovakia's only hope of freedom.) Mass arrests continued. Premier Gottwald's "action committees" seized most factories not yet nationalized; they occupied all the ministries not yet in charge of Communists. President Benes wrote a letter to the Central Committee of the Czech Communist party: "I have been thinking ... I am trying to see clearly. ... I feel...
...London Times called Geoffrey Nathaniel Pyke "one of the most original if unrecognized figures of the present century." London University Physicist J. D. Bernal said he was "one of the greatest . . . geniuses of his time." What made Pyke so extraordinary was his consistent belief that a human being could reason his way through any problem. That belief rammed Geoffrey Pyke's bald head into-and sometimes through-one stone wall after another...
...Cliffe presentation of Fry's "Phoenix Too Frequent" is a trial run of the London hit which Broadway producer Margaret Webster plans to produce in New York next fall. Miss Webster's former assistant, Florida Frebus, now an independent producer, will come to Cambridge next month to coach the cast and gauge audience reactions...
...Between the Sexes. In London, when John Gilbert's wife refused him ?i, he tossed a live hand grenade...