Word: noel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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London's impertinent music halls lampoon Joe McCarthy, Noel Coward or anybody else (except royalty) who crosses the news. But last week a songwriter got too saucy with Anthony Eden and ran afoul of the Lord Chamberlain, who has power to grant or refuse theatrical licenses without explanation. Three days before the opening of an obscure new revue called Light Fantastic, the Lord Chamberlain ordered the offending song lyrics dropped. The net result: London's tabloid Daily Mirror, which needs no by-your-leave from the Lord Chamberlain or anyone else, printed the ditty...
FUTURE INDEFINITE (352 pp.)-Noel Coward-Doubleday...
After two weeks' work as British propaganda agent in Paris at the start of World War II, Noel Coward decided to report back to London on his progress. On a supersecret telephone, Agent Coward muttered a strictly hush-hush number-to which the operator responded with "a shrill scream of laughter" that set poor Noel's conspiratorial nerves jangling. A few seconds later, however, Coward found himself connected with his superior officer, Dallas Brooks, in London and started to unburden...
...Reggie!" He also tried to atone by teaching Agent Coward a new code consisting "entirely of numbers" and of such awful complexity that "if ever I had been captured by the Gestapo they would certainly have had a tough time getting me to betray it." But by then poor Noel was beginning to realize that he and intelligence were not made for each other...
Edward D. Churchill Jr. of Belmont, Mass.; Frederick B. Churchill of Belmont, Mass.; Ernest B. Dane 3d of Newport, R. I.; Lindsay E. Fischer of Colorado Springs, Col.; Harrison Gardner Jr. of Wenham, Mass.; Daryl R. Hawkins of Seattle, Wash.; Noel H. Scullin of Newton Centre, Mass.; Hans C. Vitzthum (Capt.) of Putney, Vt.; John H. Vohr of New Hampton, N. H.; Roger F. Langley Jr. of Barre, Mass...