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Rare Boys. Giles likes to say that the only art training he ever got was in scrawling naughty words on automobiles in the London working-class suburb of Islington, where he grew up. (His "racing family" refers to his father's occupation as a jockey.) At 14, he got a job sharpening pencils and carrying tea to movie-cartoon animators in Alexander Korda's film company, got his bosses to let him trace some of the smaller details in the thousands of drawings that go to make up a sequence. He taught himself drawing so well that...
...them is Albert Sewell, a middle-aged schoolteacher who grew up in a working-class home. In the 1945 election, Sewell voted Labor. This year he will vote Conservative for the first time. "Labor's greatest failure," says Sewell vehemently, "is that it has not made ordinary working people realize that unless we first tighten our belts and then get down to the business of producing hell-for-leather, this country will go bankrupt and there will be millions out of work...
...only 'accepts the party program, attends the regular meetings of the membership branch of his place of work,' but 'who is active in party work.' Inactivity as well as disagreement with the decisions of any party organization . . . are grounds for expulsion." For detail, Hook quoted an official party organ (The Communist, May 1937): "Communist teachers must take advantage of their positions, without exposing themselves, to give their students . . . working-class education." They must be thoroughly grounded in "Marxism-Leninism . . . inject it into their teaching at the least risk of exposure and at the same time conduct...
...such turnipy titles as The Curse of the Cat People and The Seventh Victim. He did so largely, as he says, by placing "very ordinary normal people in extraordinary situations." This new film is his first, uneven attempt to show normal people in normal situations. It investigates two working-class families, the steady Hausers, who are old inhabitants of Euclid Street, and the unstable Taylors, newcomers whom war has brought to be next door neighbors. The Hauser parents, both hard at work in a war plant, are eager for their son to finish school. But Frank (Glenn Vernon...
Died. Henry Snell, 1st Baron of Plumstead, 79, the House of Lords's capable Government spokesman; in London. Son of a farm laborer, he started work as a potboy, rose to the London County Council, Parliament, the peerage. Onetime Fabian Socialist, he plumped vigorously for marital reforms, himself remained a bachelor. He chose his title, Plumstead, from part of a London working-class district which first sent him to Parliament...