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...strike again when the King had gone home. In Cape Town 18 young men (carefully matched in weight and height) were reported practicing on a three-inch bar suspended like a tightrope to perfect their balance when they took over as stewards on the royal train. Snapped the New Statesman's Kingsley Martin when this news reached London: "Buckingham Palace needs a sensible public-relations department. The King and Queen have a sufficiently burdensome job without this tomfool buildup...
Britain's socialist New Statesman and Nation spoke so frigidly last week because it had just been left in the cold. It was one of Britain's five influential highbrow weeklies to become a casualty of the fuel crisis (see FOREIGN NEWS). The Government had grimly ordered the press to cut down on the use of power; and the press's own powerful proprietors' association ruled that all periodicals (but no daily or weekly newspapers) must suspend for at least a fortnight...
...public, but to experts the top authority on Italian Renaissance painting is so well known that they refer to him as "B.B." B.B. (for Bernard Berenson) thinks there is some hope for a modern renaissance in British art-if artists learn to draw. In London's New Statesman & Nation he wrote...
...Roosevelt to Baruch, "you won't be interested in [sandwiches] made with that ham from Georgia, but there are some . . . made of sanitary Wisconsin cheese, just for you." Mr. Churchill often bounds off into sonorous oratory, uses words like "bloody" and "jolly." Mr. Baruch is a wise elder statesman who can feel things "in his bones." Mr. Hopkins, who represents the frustrated New Dealer, is sincere but tart, and has to be reprimanded by Roosevelt for using the word "stink" in front of Mr. Churchill. Author Franklin, who once worked for the State Department as an economist...
...dividend check, but they counted their money and time well spent. The little (circ. 20,000) journal had gradually won a place of influence in British politics and journalism out of all proportion to its circulation or bank balance. Though it ranked well below the Economist or the New Statesman, the Tribune was must reading in Fleet Street and the Ministries...