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...kind of person no one remembers meeting at a party. Usually to be seen in a loose tweed coat, slacks and sweater, his hands habitually stuffed into his pockets, he has a rather tight, lean, nosy face which wrinkles easily into a vinegarish smile under a widow's peak of crinkly hair. He has a very English embarrassment about expressing emotion about anything. He is rarely a talker, usually a listener -a lanky, youthful but somehow worn-looking young man who is painfully awkward with strangers. Around his Suffolk coast home at Aldeburgh-the setting of Peter Grimes...
...reunion of Pakistan with India. But in the last half year of his life Gandhi found not only the Moslem leader, but many of his own Hindus, opposing attempts at reconciliation. Orthodox Hindus resented his inroads on Hindu customs which Gandhi considered brutal, and therefore indefensible: untouchability, suttee (widow suicide), child marriages. Hindu and Sikh refugees from Moslem hate and murder, pouring into Delhi and other Indian cities, clamored for revenge. The militant Hindu organization Mahasabha (Great Society), to which Gandhi's assassin belonged, worked to make Indiaa purely Hindu state. Patel gave some encouragement to the extremists, which...
Lassoing Director. There were a few rebuffs: touchy Poet Ezra Pound blew his top; and the Widow Bridges remarked delicately that "she felt that there were statements in [her husband's] philosophy which implied a fundamental opposition to the theories behind our project." But undaunted Director Abbott galloped over England and the U.S., roping poets left and right-". . . lunch at Taplow with Walter de la Mare . . . the Isle of Wight with Alfred Noyes. . . . Witter Bynner adobe-housed at Santa Fe . . . Louis Untermeyer [cornered] in a cool fastness of the Adirondacks. . . ." Director Abbott sometimes corralled as many as five poets...
Britannia now at the crossroads stands. Shall she pinch and scrape on a widow...
Died. Richard Tauber, 55, bemonocled Austrian-born tenor, top-ranking specialist in light-wines-&-waltzing schmalzing; of a lung abscess; in London. Tenor Tauber skipped from opera to Lehar operettas in the early '20s, rode lightly to European fame on such frothy flotsam as The Merry Widow, sang Yours Is My Heart Alone so many times (about 15,000) that it became a Tauber trademark...