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...this chatter about interplanetary travel began to irritate Novelist-Columnist J. B. Priestley, who wrote in the London News Chronicle: "The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please...
Wrote Novelist J. B. (The Good Companions) Priestley to the London News Chronicle: "We live in an age when no man of any importance ever admits he was wrong . . . Infallibility is cheaper than rotten herring ... I said after the war there would be a wonderful popular appreciation of the best literature, drama, music, and the visual arts ... I was wrong. And now, gentlemen, step...
...Priestley's scenario may, at times, seem a bit fantastic and occasionally moves too rapidly from one incident to another, but Mr. Priestley has treated the theme of human loneliness with originality, with humor, and with pathos--with a dexterity which overshadows minor plot difficulties...
...show prospective buyers. In the afternoon, there is either a good British or French movie or a women's program containing news of cooking, clothes, music, new books and politics. Creative talent is concentrated in the evening hours when viewers may see ballet, plays of Shakespeare, Shaw or Priestley, or specialized shows like Matters of Life & Death, on which outstanding doctors give detailed explanations of modern medical techniques. By 1954, BBC hopes there will be enough TV sets and transmitters (there are now only two) so that TV will be available to 87% of the population...
Though the magazine's pay is nominal, it has attracted such writers as G. B. Shaw, E. M. Forster, J. B. Priestley, Rebecca West and Elizabeth Bowen. A weekly feature is the barbed verses of Sagittarius (Olga Katzin, 54, a housewife who makes daily trips to the cubbyhole London office where she writes her poems). Recently, Sagittarius winged the government on the newsprint shortage. Said Sagittarius...