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...generations the BBC, known affectionately to all Britons as "Auntie BBC," has been - first via radio, then television - the sonorous, serious, slightly stuffy voice of England's Oxbridge-accented Establishment. Until, that is, the siren of commercial television sauntered on the scene nine years ago swinging her pocketbook in the guise of the ITV network and luring away the BBC's viewers. Auntie retaliated by taking on in 1960 a new leading man to spruce up her image: Hugh Carleton Greene, now 54, brother of Novelist Graham Greene, as director general. Greene brought in fresh-and often brash...
...sidewalks outside the Met for three days to snap up 448 standing-room tickets. The buildup, and one of the most glittering audiences in memory, demanded a triumphal evening. Callas, singing the role of Tosca, made it so, not with her voice, but with every last ounce of her siren skill...
...Hollywood star's motereade, accompanied by a siren-blasting Cambridge police escort, will cross the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge and journey up the avenue to Holyoke St. At the Pudding, Miss Remick will meet such dignitaries as Dean Watson, Edward A. Crane '35, mayor of Cambridge, and the entire cast of this year's Pudding Theatrical, "No Hard Feelings...
...Nilsson and the Met, it was a stunning triumph. Wisely underplaying the adolescent siren, she seduced instead with the flashing beauty of her voice. She sang as though her lungs were made of the finest Swedish steel...
Churchill wielded greater personal power during the five wartime years than any other Prime Minister in British history. No detail was too small to escape his attention as strategist or statesman. Clad in the siren suit that he invented, a cigar clamped grotesquely in the midst of his cherubic countenance, he never tired of inspecting troops or chatting with victims of the blitz, often had to be dragged protesting from a rooftop as London shuddered under a Luftwaffe attack...