Word: sydney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talk about their troubles under Australia's summer sun, Queen Elizabeth appointed Britain's cool, crisp Chancellor of the Exchequer "Rab" Butler to be a Companion of Honor.* It was one way of dramatizing the fact that Rab Butler was in undisputed charge for Britain at the Sydney conference...
...Australia, the Sydney Daily Mirror headlined a tennis reversal: TRABERT PULVERIZES LEW HOAD. The U.S.'s Tony Trabert, bouncing back from his five-set Davis Cup loss to Hoad, whipped the youngster, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2, for the South Australian tennis title. Said Hoad: "I've had tennis for the moment." ¶ In Cincinnati, meeting at the N.C.A.A. convention, the unofficial Ivy League finally made it official. Beginning in 1956, the Ivies-Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale-will meet one another in football on a round-robin basis for a regular conference...
...lack of good scripts. Last week's Brandenburg Gate dealt familiarly with the cold war in beleaguered Berlin, and the plot leaned heavily on devices borrowed from Carol Reed films and Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. Jack Palance was effective as the present-day Sydney Carton who gives his life to free Maria Riva's husband from a Communist death cell...
...four days after his brother Reginald was named editor of the weekly News of the World (circ. 8,230,158), the third Cudlipp brother to become an, editor (TIME, Nov. 30), Percy Cudlipp surprised Fleet Street by resigning from the Daily Herald. To take his place, the paper named Sydney Elliott, 51, a devoted Socialist who has already proved his talent for circulation-building bright news and features on Beaverbrook's papers and on the sensational Daily Mirror...
During World War II, pug-nosed, Australian-born Stanley ("Davo") Davidson and scar-faced Dedan Kimathi served together in Ethiopia as members of the King's African Rifles. When the war was over, Davidson returned to bored peacefulness in Sydney. Kimathi, a onetime Kikuyu schoolteacher, went on to become the almost legendary "General Russia," fiercest chieftain of Kenya's bloodthirsty Mau Man terrorists...