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...year-old Baron Lyle of Westbourne, whose firm of Tate & Lyle is the biggest sugar refinery in Britain (the baron's coat of arms includes interlaced sugar canes surmounted by a defiant rooster). Baron Lyle is the sponsor of the "Mr. Cube" cartoons, which feature an animated lump of sugar with definite opinions against proposals to nationalize Britain's sugar industry (TIME, Dec. 19). The "Mr. Cube" cartoons, he declared frostily, would continue to appear on his sugar packages, at least until the King dissolves Parliament...
...Shiner's grave occurs a scene to raise a lump in the gullet of the steeliest projection machine. Snowy potters about, planting flowers, leaving a cross and "a glass dome, full of waxen flowers and fruit, with a marble scroll curling through the flowers, and SHINER, in fine long letters cut in it." He takes pictures of the grave, "and a heat of grief bit into him." He looks up, past "doves flying white in the blue," and prays, "Oy, you want to watch out. There ain't all that many of 'em. Please. Look after...
...Tate & Lyle, were helped by a champion as ubiquitous and eloquent as Colonel Blimp ("Gad, sir, the Americans should be forced to pay us the money we owe them!") or long-nosed, war-born Mr. Chad ("Wot, no bacon & eggs?"). The free-enterprise champion was Mr. Cube, a personable lump of sugar invented by a 30-year-old ex-newspaperman and psychological warfare expert named Roy Hudson. On millions of sugar cartons, thousands of posters, pamphlets and ration-book covers, Mr. Cube's expressive face and thin, agile limbs have helped launch slogans like...
...music news happens in New York. TIME's story last week of Dr. Gustavus Capito of Charleston, W. Va. is a good example of the kind of coverage TIME's Music department attempts. Dr. Capito used to get a lump in his throat when he listened to Smetana's Moldau. He wondered why some American composer couldn't write as good a piece about the Kanawha, the river that flows through his home town. He offered to pay the conductor-composer of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra $1,000 for the kind of composition...
Music-loving Dr. Gustavus Capito of Charleston., W. Va. used to get a lump in his throat when he listened to Smetana's Moldau. He wondered why some American composer couldn't write as good a piece about the Kanawha, the river that flows through his home town...