Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blagden and Fordyce (Philosophical Transactions, London, Volume LXV, Part II) showed that a man in good health can stand for a period of eight minutes an exposure to a temperature of 250° F. without suffering any ill effects, and without a serious rise in body temperature, while a beefsteak exposed at the same time to the same environment [and fanned by bellows] was cooked in 13 minutes. . . . WILLIAM B. BEAN, M.D. University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio...
...divert part of their meat and fats to the Ruhr next month. If it worked, Ruhr tension would be eased. But what about the other Western Germans, plenty of whom were having thin scrabbling (see cut)? Was divvying up the rations just another way of divvying discontent? In London, Ernie Bevin sent an urgent personal note to George Marshall warning that German hunger and unrest would likely grow worse. And there were other tensions...
...years ago, amid expressions of high hope that reverberated through the clerical hush of London's Church House, the U.N. Security Council met for the first time. Last week, as it met for the 229th time, the anniversary passed unheralded. Said Russian Assistant, Secretary-General Arkady Sobolev: "This is hardly an auspicious time for a birthday celebration...
Chief rival to Ahmed is Ali, who has two formidable assets: he commands the Sana garrison and is close to the Imamate's treasury, in the cellar under Yahya's palace. Brother Abdullah, Yahya's roving ambassador to various foreign posts (now in London), is too remote from Yemen to be a strong contender for the couch. Brother Hussein is amiable and popular, but used to be jailed now & then by his father for drinking bouts, is now in retirement on a farm. The eighth son, Ibrahim, fled from Yemen to British Aden a year ago after...
Died. Richard Tauber, 55, bemonocled Austrian-born tenor, top-ranking specialist in light-wines-&-waltzing schmalzing; of a lung abscess; in London. Tenor Tauber skipped from opera to Lehar operettas in the early '20s, rode lightly to European fame on such frothy flotsam as The Merry Widow, sang Yours Is My Heart Alone so many times (about 15,000) that it became a Tauber trademark...