Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hideous Flemish masterpiece, newly acquired by London's National Gallery, looked strangely familiar. Probably, said the National Gallery experts last week, Illustrator John Tenniel had used it as the model for the Duchess in Alice. Flemish Master Quentin Matsys (1466-1530), who had painted the original, had intended it as a caricature of Margaret (nicknamed "Pocket-mouth"), Countess of Tyrol. About the only change Tenniel made, agreed the London News Chronicle, was to add "ermine to the headdress and sausage curls to the forehead." Otherwise little was otherwise...
...London's Savoy Hotel, John Steinbeck overheard a Chicago Tribune man snort: "Capa, you have absolutely no integrity!" That wartime remark, says Steinbeck, "intrigued me-I was fascinated that anybody could get so low that a Chicago Tribune man could say such a thing. I investigated Capa, and I found out it was perfectly true." Photographer Robert Capa and Author Steinbeck became great friends...
...Rugby has shattered another tradition, and last week many an old public-school man wondered whether it was one too many. As its new head master, it had picked a man who had never taught a class or preached a sermon. The new head: London Lawyer Sir Arthur Brownlow fforde, 47, wartime under secretary in two British ministries (Supply, Treasury). Hard-pressed Rugby had frankly picked him because it needed someone who knew how to handle money. All week the London Times's letter columns bristled and huffed. Canon Harry Kenneth Luce, head master of Durham School, posed...
...43rd issue of the Salvation Army Yearbook, published by the international headquarters in London and released in the U.S. last week, records-as far as figures can-the good fight that Booth's troops have fought. During the past fiscal year the Army has given out 33,772,383 meals and 10,941,102 beds, found jobs for 77,766, operated 415 shelters, hostels and food depots, maintained 94 maternity homes and 26 industrial and boarding schools. Commissioned officers and cadets increased by 4,294 (to 32,105), and 15,205 laymen were employed fulltime...
Married. David Niven, 37, sparrowy, Scottish-born cinemactor (Raffles, The Bishop's Wife), and Hjördis Demberg Tersmeden, 27, red-haired Swedish ex-model; each for the second time (his first wife died in 1946 from an accidental fall); in London...