Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frederick Charles Baxter of London, England were married in 1934. For ten years they lived together in a connubial state that Mr. Baxter decided was unsatisfactory: Mrs. Baxter consistently refused to have sexual intercourse with him unless he used a contraceptive...
Ottawa to Oslo. Canada's Barbara Ann Scott was the girl everybody's eyes were on. Like a wind-whipped prairie fire, her fame has swept eastward from Ottawa to London and Oslo; a few sparks were even observed in Hollywood. In Prague, her photograph was printed in local newspapers 17 times in three days-Rita Hayworth, in Prague recently, got her picture in the paper only eight times. Back home in Ottawa, where a whole Dominion gurgles appreciatively every time Barbara Ann winks an eye, the wheels of government once stopped while the Canadian House of Commons...
...dust was soon ankle-deep on his studio floor, for Giacometti smashed almost everything he did. (He explained: "They were made to last only a few hours.") Sometimes his friends rescued a head or a torso or an arm. These won praise among the forward fringe in Paris and London, but not in his native Switzerland...
Fortnight ago, his nose for news began to twitch again. He presided over a house-warming at his paper's new London home. Then he cleared his billiard-table-sized desk, and caught a boat train. In Manhattan last week, four hours after stepping off the Queen Elizabeth, he gave the Council on Foreign Relations a lucid lecture on Britain's "concealed inflation" (the Crowther view: an oversupply of demand) and its inevitable end ("we are disconcerted now by the boominess of the boom, as we shall be equally disconcerted by the slumpiness of the slump...
Phrasemaker for M.P.s. For most of its 104 years, the Economist had been a financial paper for London "City men." It was Crowther who pushed the financial tables into the back pages and brilliantly widened the Economist's horizon. Its best long leaders on world problems and news, written in his own longhand, are a clear synthesis of political and economic reasoning that often echoes in Parliament. Many an M.P. would be tongue-tied if he could not say, as Anthony Eden said last week, "I saw . . . by the Economist. . . ." ("Soft underbelly of Europe" was Crowther's phrase...