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...street and in the pub still seems to like Ike and wonder who this chap Stevenson is. But the Laborite Daily Herald says: "Ike has become a pitiful pawn." The thoughtful Economist, which backed Eisenhower a few months ago, last week worried about Ike's association with Taft, wondered whether "Eisenhower, the politician, is a different man from Eisenhower, the architect of a united victory." But, added the Economist, "may the best...
...them from the windows. They toured the Tower, St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey ("Is this really the coronation throne? Kinda beat up, isn't it?"), carefully watched out for cars on the "wrong side" of the street, crowded into Dirty Dick's Fleet Street pub and the Prospect of Whitby on the Thames. Wherever Americans went sightseeing, they saw that reassuring sight-other Americans...
...glamour boy," he says. "I loathe cigars, I haven't got a swimming pool, I've only been married once, and I'm a mass of indecisions." His writers and directors talk over their ideas at round-table conferences, often held in a pub across the street...
...surrounds himself with books (from Proust to Plato) and samples them as a dowager might a box of chocolates. When a friend chided him for being self-consciously highbrow, Laughton replied simply: "You've got to remember that I was brought up in a country pub, that all my people were hotelkeepers, and that I'm just coming into the world of culture...
...occasionally they see the parson in the pub, they will not think him so strange when they pay their rare visit to church at a wedding or armistice service. And it may give him insight in using words more wisely when they come...