Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wartime, under the whip of demands for sacrifice, the British spirit stiffened again & again. Last week, when the British Government asked for more austerity to meet a further crisis, the British spirit simply relaxed dispiritedly. Said a London stenographer: "Surely, this is not all we have to do to put things right...
...closing speech at Geneva, Britain's Representative Harold Wilson forecast the future: "The methods we may have to use in the intervening months and years may appear to be opposed to the principles and methods of the draft [free trade] charter." Then Wilson returned to London and was even more specific: "We shall be working on bilateral agreements instead of multilateral." This meant that Britain, the second greatest trading nation in the world, would still be tied to the ideas of blocked currency and barter agreements that had been developed by Hitler's Dr. Hjalmar Schacht...
...walked toward the box he thought to himself, "Here I am, a young punk from California. . . ." But was he nervous? "No. I looked at the King the same way he looked at me. ... I guess both of us figured the other was pretty good in his own line." Said London's Daily Telegraph of Big Jake: "The only one of the postwar generation who could have lived in the company of such great champions as Lacoste and Tilden...
...Time for Vacation. With this week's broadcast in London, Gracie will wind up the live half of the series (the Other six shows have been transcribed). For the future, she would like a "long-vacation" (either at her Santa Monica estate or at her Capri villa). But she's reluctant to mention a rest: even Lancashire would take a dim view of anyone lolling nowadays, when all Britain is supposed to be working harder...
Married. Louise Van Alen Mdivani, 37, Astor heiress; and Alexander Saunderson, 29, London lawyer; she for the third time (her first and second husbands were both "Marrying Mdivanis"), he for the first; in Newport...