Word: basilic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Basil Kingsley Martin, the cheerfully scolding editor of Britain's weekly New Statesman and Nation, looks like a nonconformist minister-which his father was. In his column last fortnight, he let fly at one of his favorite targets-the Church...
...More Flags, written in six weeks while Waugh was cooped up on a troopship during World War II, described Basil Seal's war effort, in the course of which he profitably blackmailed his sister's respectable neighbors by billeting on them three evacuee children so monstrous as to be almost lifelike...
...Peter Pastmaster; Sir Alastair Digby-Vaine-Trumpington and Viola Chasm. This glittering, blandly selfish, pretentiously stupid upper-class riffraff was to romp through most of Waugh's later books, sharing their futile power for pointless and appalling mischief with such later creations as raffish, rascally Basil Seal, motorbiking Father Rothschild (a member of a younger branch of the banking family, who had become a Jesuit priest), and the American evangelist, Mrs. Melrose Ape. With her cotton-winged angels (Chastity, Divine Discontent, et al.), Mrs. Ape wowed high society by singing her inspirational hymn: There ain't no flies...
Cavalcade of America (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). The Common Glory, with Basil Rathbone...
...Died. Basil Harris, 58, board chairman of the U.S. Lines; of cancer; in Manhattan. He became a partner (with the late Kermit Roosevelt) in the Roosevelt Steamship Co. in 1923, joined the U.S. Lines as vice president in 1931, served in 1939-40 as Commissioner of Customs and assistant to Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau...