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...Labor Party symbol is made up of three elements: the spade and pen, representing workers of both the hand and the brain, linked by the torch. The symbol came into being in 1918, following the formation of a new party constitution, and is thought to have been designed by Jimmie Middleton, who was then general secretary of the party. [For that original version, see cut.) The stylized version of the symbol that TIME used in the background of the Wilson cover portrait was prepared 2½ years ago by Jack Stoddard of the Labor Party's art department...
...poems, said the committee, had "unique thought and style and beauty of language." And so last week, Giorgos Seferiades (pen name: George Seferis), 63, became the first Greek to win the $51,000 Nobel Prize for literature. A diplomat (until last year Ambassador to Britain) as well as a poet for more than 30 years, his eyes filled with tears as he called the award an honor for Greece "for which so many generations have struggled, striving to maintain what is still alive in its long tradition." Indeed, it was true, as in Seferiades' Memory II, of two friends...
...descriptions sound like notes for a cartoon to be drawn later, there is good reason. The words belong to Emery Kelen, a Hungarian-born caricaturist who has spent most of his life studying faces for some clue to the inner man. Along with Kelen's deft pen portraits, his incisive word pictures appear in his book, Peace in Their Time (Knopf...
...Paris, hundreds of cinémanes stood in line night after night for three nights to get seats. "We were absolutely overthrown," says Director Truffaut. "Here was a man who had done all we dreamed of doing. He had written films as a novelist writes books. Instead of a pen he had used a camera. He was an author of cinema...
...Sandy and Daddy are trying to catch fish and bringing up nothing but empty nets, Flipper torpedoes up to the boat with a big smile on his face. Flipper leads them to a whole school of pompano, and Daddy is very happy. Next day Flipper jumps into the fish pen and gobbles up all the pompano, and Daddy is very unhappy. He dislikes dolphins anyway, because they eat a lot of fish and snarl up his nets, so he sets out with a gun to shoot some. "Even Flipper?" Sandy asks tearfully. "Even Flipper," says Daddy. But this aquatic bedtime...