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...TIME, Sept. 4, the author of the article about Britain's New Statesman and Nation used the word clerihew, evidently referring to some sort of writing...
...Clerihew" is a verse of four lines of varying length in which the first two and last two lines rhyme. It gets its name from its inventor, Edmund Clerihew Bentley, author (Trent's Last Case), poet, and contributor to the New Statesman. Sample "Clerihew" from a New Statesman competition...
...noting on the back of a box of cigarettes this list: Populists 62, Liberals 62, Union of the Center 46, Social Democrats 34, Union of the Left 11, Unionists 6. These are the main political parties, with the number of seats that they hold in Parliament. The taverna statesman then juggles the list around until he gets a coalition government with a voting majority in the 250-seat chamber. Then he has "made" a government...
While the government tried to settle the dispute, some magazine publishers (daily newspapers were not affected) managed to get out token issues by makeshift methods. The New Statesman & Nation (TIME, Sept. 4), normally a comfortable 24 pages, squeaked out eight pages by photostated typewriting. The Economist, like many strikebound U.S. papers in the last few years (TIME, Dec. 1, 1947 et seq.), used Vari-Typing to produce a makeshift, 16-page issue for its 107th anniversary. It tartly warned the printers: "Union leaders would do well to observe that it is possible to get along without any compositors...
Died. Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, 80, world statesman; after long Hness; in his home near Pretoria, Union if South Africa (see FOREIGN NEWS...