Word: tatter
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Below his face is a couplet: "To keep Nigeria one is the cause that must be won." The rhyme is meant to encourage Nigerians in their war with break away Biafra, but the poster paper has begun to tatter. The war, which Gow on originally predicted would be "a surgical police action," next week enters its third bloody year...
...every tatter in its mortal dress...
...elocutionist for the passionate verses in her assorted Poetry Readings (London). London's Sherlock Holmes disk goes to the other extreme as three mighty hams-Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ralph Richardson. Orson Welles-rant and thunder through Dr. Watson Meets Sherlock Holmes and The Final Problem, in a tatter-tearing passion that would never have been tolerated at 221B Baker Street...
...fashioned a springy, cock-of-the-walk style all his own. With a little prompting from J.A. (as he often called himself), London capitulated, gave him enough critical portfolios for an unofficial ministry-of-arts. Some of his posts: drama critic of the Sunday Times, film critic of the Tatter, book reviewer for the Daily Express, theater commentator for BBC. For a time, he held all four jobs at once...
...Swedish authorities knew who fired the bombs, they were not saying. But the public unanimously thought of Russia's new Baltic coastline. After another half-dozen things had flashed across the sky of middle Sweden last week, military authorities prescribed "special alertness" for amateur astronomers and laymen. The Tatter said: "The Russians are getting fresh...