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Scholarly Dr. Bruno Pontecorvo, 37, was well-liked by his fellow nuclear physicists at Britain's Harwell atomic research plant. The Italian-born Briton was jolly and fun-loving, a good dancer, an enthusiastic tennis player. His pretty Swedish wife Helena Marianne was just as gay, had a flair for flamboyant clothes, including red slacks...
...Poland-born Antonina Vallentin, a naturalized Frenchwoman, has two qualifications for the job: 1) she knew Wells, 2) she is practiced in writing books about famous men (e.g., Leonardo da Vinci, Heinrich Heine, Gustav Stresemann, Mirabeau, Goya). With H. G. Wells, she comes to grips with her first eccentric Briton-and emerges from the struggle wearing the pained, puzzled expression of a fighter who has been repeatedly but deftly rabbit-punched...
...Genius," Alexander Cozens once wrote, "conceives strongly, invents with originality, and executes readily." Few of his contemporaries and fewer since his day thought of applying that pithy observation to Cozens himself. But recently the obscure, 18th Century Briton has been coming into his own. Last week his paintings were the standouts of an exhibition of romantic English watercolors at New Haven's Yale University Art Gallery...
...mild-mannered, string-haired Michael Oakeshott, 48, longtime (1923-49) Cambridge history don, a conservative with a passion for horse races.* To many a Briton, it seemed as if L.S.E. and its 3,600 students might be headed down mid-road at last...
...King (actually by the Prime Minister). Even under a Labor government, the board has an old school tie atmosphere that filters down through all echelons. BBCmen work hard and enthusiastically for very little money, and the revenue for their modest salaries comes almost entirely from the listening public. Each Briton pays ?1 a year for his radio license fee or ?2 for his TV set. Additional income pours in from BBC's impressive list of publications, which accept advertising even though BBC does not. For the year ending March 1950, on an income of ?11,031,791, BBC showed...