Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even before he began work on The Doctor in 1891 Sir Luke knew it would be a great success: "more terrible, perhaps, but yet more beautiful," than anything else he had done. A careful workman, he first built in his London studio, like a movie set, the cottage interior he intended to use.'Copying that on canvas, and painting the dawn stealing in the prop window, Fildes inserted the characters he had in mind: worried parents hovering in the shadows, their sick little girl feverishly sleeping in the light of an oil lamp, and the bearded doctor leaning over...
When he had it the way he wanted, Fildes began all over again, larger. The final version, which hangs in London's Tate Gallery, is still a great crowd-puller, but a less sentimental age no longer weeps openly at the sight of it, as visitors once did. The smaller first version is the proudest possession of the Guthrie Clinic in Sayre...
Lucky Pants. During the morning round of the finals, Britons had a burst of hope. The Babe, dressed in a "refined" sweater and culottes, was wild on her long game, and London's Jacqueline Gordon, who had learned golf from Henry Cotton, was putting with deadly accuracy. At the end of the eleventh hole, the Babe was two down for the first time during the tournament. Said she: "I should have kept my lucky pants...
Communism is not only a persuasive religion ; it is a highly organized one. Back from a six weeks' trip to Soviet Russia with this conviction, the London Daily Mail's Correspondent Alexander Clifford wrote...
...universality," wrote Protestant Clifford. "But one of its churches, the Roman Catholic, still has a worldwide organization. . . . Has the largest Christian Church enough spiritual strength to withstand Communism? Has it any plans for doing so?" To find out, Correspondent Clifford hustled off to Rome. His cables back to London were not overly optimistic...