Word: mayfair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the smart sidewalks of Belgrave Square to the teeming front stoops of South London's slums, an English baby is known by the carriage he keeps. Massive, super-sprung, often a flashy lilac in color, for the Mayfair nanny and the working-class "mum" alike, the Big Pram has become in postwar Britain a symbol of status akin to the automobile in U.S. oneupmanship. But at least one winter baby in England next year is due for a hand-me-down. As Buckingham Palace prepared for the first child to be born to a reigning British monarch...
...near midnight in Mayfair, heart of London's gilded West End. Rain clouds had driven Sunday window-shoppers home early, not a bobby was in sight, and the drifting squadrons of prostitutes who once crowded Mayfair's shadowy lanes had long since been sent to cover with the enactment of Britain's tough new laws against streetwalking. When a solitary car pulled to a halt in front of the Piccadilly shop of the Goldsmiths' & Silversmiths' Association, the stage was set for the greatest jewel robbery in Britain's history...
...explores the universal rhythm of the Negro race. Whom did Sapphire know before she crossed the color line? One Negro girl is ready to tell, says: "I hated that high-yellow doll"; Sapphire had stolen her man. The police find him, a Negro bishop's son with a Mayfair manner and an Oxford accent. Had the bishop's boy ever intended marriage with Sapphire? Good heavens, no. "She was part white...
...Shell Gasoline (British version) features a simple-minded motorist with an asthmatic car. "Uncontrolled ignition, old boy!" explains a Mayfair type in clipped U accents. The motorist fills up on Shell and drives off, as the announcer cackles: "Happy at last. Good old George...
...boom The World of Paul Slickey, Pelham darkly tabbed it "the show they tried to kill," plastered ads in taxis and in rest rooms of Mayfair restaurants. A four-page tabloid called the Daily Racket (after the paper in the play) sprouted on London newsstands, loaded with barbs aimed at Fleet Streeters. Rebuffed in efforts to hold an opening-night party in a Fleet Street pressroom, he hired the Cock Tavern, a newsmen's hangout, decorated it with signs, copies of the Racket, copy boys, celebrities and drink. (The bottle count: 64 whisky, 55 wine, 46 gin, twelve brandy...