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...Cockney's street barrows were bright with yellow jonquils. In Soho Square the hedges turned from sooty brown to impetuous green. The stark winter skeletons of the trees in Hyde Park were smudged by swollen buds; purple crocuses pushed up in the rain. It was spring in London...
...Soho's restaurants you can order four strawberries for half a crown...
...Eire Italian confectionaries were emptied. In Glasgow students threatened resident Italians. In London the squalid, Italianate Soho district was a scene of riot...
...London, a handsome young man named Allen Lane, 33-year-old son of an architect, quit his job in his uncle's publishing house (the famed Bodley Head) and started publishing pocket-size, paperbound Penguin books. His original capital: ?100. His publishing office: a crypt beneath a Soho church. Tables were tomb tops; storage space was empty tombs. The first six months he sold over a million copies, including such titles as Hemingway's Farewell to Arms, André Maurois' Ariel, Mowrer's Germany Puts the Clock Back...
Seven-year-old Scophony is the lusty baby of British television. Guided by squat, bespectacled Russian-refugee Sagall, it weathered five years of bailiff dodging, grew from a room and a half in Soho to $1,050,000 capitalization, achieved financial association with Odeon. Competitor in large-screen television is Baird Television Ltd. partly owned by Gaumont-British Picture Corp., Ltd. They report several orders for theatre television screens, do not specify which theatres, might offer BBC loans of Gaumont-British stars in exchange for programs...