Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Motor Co. Ltd., Britain's second largest automaker, put 10,000 workers on a four-day week, starting this week. Reason: the credit restrictions imposed by Labor in June have cut home demand (exports are at record levels). Hoover Ltd., a major washing-machine maker, ordered 4,000 Welsh and Scottish workers onto a short week starting Sept. 6. The Transport Ministry postponed for six months about half of the $140 million in road building that was to have started shortly. Most telltale of all, unemployment leaped by 58,333−a startling 20%−in the four weeks...
...only because people are interested in how Hemingway wrote," says Atlantic's Executive Editor Robert Manning. A devoted Hemingway fan, Manning met Papa while interviewing him for a TIME cover. The two became friends and exchanged letters. After Hemingway's death Manning visited his widow, Mary Welsh, to ask if he might see any unpublished manuscripts. He found a pair of love poems written by Papa to Mary during World War II and persuaded Mary to let the Atlantic run them...
With the cross of Mary Welsh...
...JONES: IT'S NOT UNUSUAL (Parrot). Now it is a Welsh miner's son, a curlyheaded six-footer with a bronze voice and a pair of leather lungs, who belts out Chuck Berry songs like Memphis Tennessee. Jones dips into folk as well (Skye Boat Song), but runs down in sentimental ballads like It's Just a Matter of Time...
...Jeanne Moreau. And except for some wonderfully grey and wintry views of Venice, this long, turgid melodrama has little else to recommend it. Made in Italy in 1962 by Director Joseph Losey (The Servant), Eva describes how a malicious, luxury-class harlot (Moreau) coolly destroys a famous Welsh author (Stanley Baker) who never amounted to much in the first place. The man is a loser whose reputation rests on a novel he stole from his dead brother. By the time the woman finishes with him, his exquisite wife (Virna Lisi) has committed suicide and the writer is reduced to loud...