Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Forbes-Robertson, Barrymore, Gielgud and Olivier. Last week in a converted London Victorian engine shed called The Round House, Nicol Williamson joined that slim and goodly company at Hamlet's very...
...Inner Fire. A gangling 6 ft. 2 in., Williamson burns with incandescence and carries with him the smell of smoldering cordite. If he were not lit with inner fire, he would be sin gularly unprepossessing. Alan Brien, col umnist of the London Sunday Times, once described him as having "eyes like poached eggs, hair like treacle tof fee, and a truculent lower lip protruding like a pink front step from the long pale doorway of his face...
...Gaulle, if forced to devalue, might not stop at a reasonable 10% change in parity but insist capriciously on 20% or more. That would give France an enormous trading advantage, and force a competitive devaluation of other currencies. As David Rockefeller, president of the Chase Manhattan Bank, said in London last week, the franc is "the key currency. If you could guarantee that nothing will happen to the franc this year, you could guarantee there would be no monetary crisis...
...insignificant left-wing weekly with a small readership and less clout. Martin drew his Fabian Society friends (G. B. Shaw, H. G. Wells) to the pages of the magazine, made it Britain's foremost intellectual forum, increased circulation to 80,000. His own influential column, "London Diary," was Utopian in thrust, often whimsical in tone, and maddening to the government. Though radicals rallied around him, he refused to be lured into politics. As he once said: "I always preferred to tell the other chap what...
Died. Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, 81, grande dame of British politics and symbol of the Liberal Party's intellectual-humanist tradition; in London. The daughter of Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith (1908-16), Lady Asquith became her party's most eloquent spokesman in the 1930s. She was twice defeated for the House of Commons, but in 1964 was granted a lifetime peerage and thus a seat in the House of Lords -from which she berated Prime Minister Wilson for his failure to cope with Britain's economic woes...