Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press came away divided. The Scotsman found that, "as advocates of modern American music, they are lacking in discrimination," but the Daily Express called the production "lively and enjoyable." The Daily Mail was jolted, said the company came "to instruct us in a kind of musical entertainment which is almost startlingly novel . . . Their show is slick and professional, yet informal...
...Steve) Stevenson's door and gave the Toronto Star's 33-year-old roving newsman 24 hours to get out of Egypt. Also expelled for spreading "falsehoods and fabrications to mislead public opinion": the London Evening Standard's pretty Anne Sharpley, 26, and the London Daily Mail's fortyish Eileen Travis, a U.S. citizen. That made a total of five correspondents sent packing since Egypt seized the Suez Canal...
...campaign's call to alarms. Adlai Ewing Stevenson, as the Democratic presidential nominee, had work to do, but his chores as a top news figure were ordained by a flock of newshawks. He was photographed clipping rosebushes, climbing fences, chasing sheep, petting dogs, pulling corn, bringing in the mail, hauling groceries...
There are other names for him too. London's Tory Daily Mail calls him "Hitler on the Nile." The Peking press coos: "Egyptian brother." France's Premier Guy Mollet has called him "a megalomaniac" dictator. "This is how Fascist governments behave," warns Sir Anthony Eden. The Cairo press calls him "savior of the people," the Israelis say "highway robber," "treacherous wolf." Nehru's private verdict: "Too young and inexperienced." To France's Foreign Minister Christian Pineau, Nasser is "a congenital liar...
Realizing that homing Americans (some 75% of Shannon's westbound traffic) are often pinched for cash, the shop in 1954 started a mail-order business that allows tourists to bring in their purchases duty-free up to six months after their arrival in the U.S. Top-selling items: Irish whisky (50,000 gals, in 1955), French perfumes, German cameras (1,000 a month), Swiss watches, and American cigarettes at $1.40 a carton. Last week, with 90,000 mail-order catalogues floating through Europe and the U.S., Shannon started expanding its counter space for the second time. Said...