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There'll be a hush over London as the last few minutes of the Old Year tick away. Then, from the four orange faces of Big Ben will come the first chimes of midnight, slow and reverberating, creeping from radio sets into every waiting home in the land. A new energy stirs. In the shadowy silence of St. Paul's Cathedral the Watch Night congregation will bend more fervently. At Piccadilly, amid the hooters and factory sirens that will mingle with all the city's bells, young men and girls will surge around Eros, wildly yelling, singing...
Connolly is chiefly concerned with "the artist," and with what makes him tick, and stop ticking. Why, asks Connolly, does young "Mr. Shelleyblake" write a first novel that the critics hail as bursting with "promise"-only to find that in his next novels young Shelleyblake fails to deliver the promised goods? Is the broken promise the fault of Shelleyblake himself, or of his critics, or of the world in which he writes...
...Unless you got him away on a hunting trip," he added, "and gave him a few highballs and a pair of dice. Then you might find out what makes him tick...
...jubilant Elsie Dick, reporting a flood of 1,152 letters in response to the first program, went busily ahead with plans for this week's lesson on the atom- a mystery show entitled The Case of the Tick-Tock Murder, starring Cinemactor Turhan...
...yappy") is the world's biggest state trading agency outside Russia, the report was less than a page long. It was unsigned, apparently unaudited. There was no statement of goods on hand. Though European soft-currency countries owe IAPI $732 million for food and other products bought on tick, the only reference to this was a $52 million item called "operations with foreign governments." Finally, without offering any proof, IAPI claimed a thumping 1947 profit of $259 million. "It makes no sense to me," said one Buenos Aires bank manager last week. "It looks as if the figures were...