Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fleet Street editors prepared their readers for next Sunday when pretty Princess Margaret will turn five-and-twenty. The old-line newspapers acted as if this were just another milestone for the Court Circular. The lurid tabloids headlined it as the day when, in the words of the Daily Sketch, "she can marry whom she pleases," and went on to relate with simulated disapproval the latest American reports on Group Captain Peter Townsend, 40, the R.A.F. fighter-pilot hero and British air attaché in Brussels whom all Fleet Street expects Margaret to marry...
They were reading Mann once again in Germany. A new novel, a wryly ironic account of a gifted swindler (based on an old sketch), was having a great success. Last March his home town, Lübeck, which had once resented Buddenbrooks, made him an honorary citizen. In May in Stuttgart he opened the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the death of Poet-Dramatist Friedrich von Schiller. Almost in spite of himself, Mann had become a symbol of German unity. His 80th birthday in June was the occasion for celebrations in the Western world, but none so satisfactory...
TIME again has uncovered heretofore unrecognized evidence on a vital issue: in the biographical sketch of Gussie Busch of our beer nobility, noting decreased sales of beer; attention was called to diversions, including the do-it-yourself movement, made possible by unprecedented income and leisure of the common run of Americans. Such diversions, it was suggested, could account for less dependence on alcoholic drinks for relief from boredom. This is evidence that Americans are not being led into debauchery by prosperity and the five-day week...
London's tabloid Daily Mirror immediately nominated the Dean for "the most unending ass, half in Christendom and half in Communism." The London Daily Sketch's editorial columnist, Candidus, angrily scored his "antics and political clowning," suggested a boycott of the cathedral whenever he preached. From the pulpit of London's St. Luke's Church, the Rev. Hector Morgan issued another blast: "Send Dr. Johnson on a permanent mercy mission to the prisoners in the salt mines of Siberia...
...Aireview, Japan's largest aviation monthly (circ. 20,000), which printed classified details of the F-100, including a detailed diagram. In Washington Air Force security people launched an investigation to find out how this breach of security occurred, said that any U.S. publication that reprinted the Japanese sketch would be "violating security...