Word: channelling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...shots and selected quotes. Its staff of nearly 250 has also collected brief, extraordinary commentaries from the low and the mighty of the Churchill years-housewives. Tommies, Clement Attlee, Eisenhower, Truman, De Gaulle. One of the best offers a light footnote to dark tension. A Thames boatman remembers his Channel crossing for the Dunkirk evacuation 20 years ago, says he finished off a bawtla whisky on the way 'ome. "The wife said, 'Are you tired or drunk?' I said, 'Both...
...made menagerie: "There had never been a zoo in the town ever since it had become a town, and so they did not see why there should be one now." For a year, Durrell almost literally had a zoo in his luggage. Then a 17th century mansion on the Channel island of Jersey was ceded to the animal kingdom...
This year's Godkin Lectures will be televised live on WGBH-TV (Channel) 2. Sir Charles P. Snow, British scientist and writer, will give the three lectures Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday on "Science and Government...
...Ford Foundation pledged $40,000. With $112,000 to go, Greenburg got another philanthropic windfall of $55,000. Keeping it secret, he called a mass meeting of businessmen to spring his surprise. "I'll take 5% of what's left," cried a gleeful brewer. In ten minutes channel 9 had a full till...
...their show is in no more trouble than many shows in tryout. One prospective first-nighter who declared himself unworried was T. H. White, who will get 1% of the gross, or about $3,000 a month for the life of the show. From his home on the remote Channel island of Alderney, he wrote to Lerner: "For God's sake, forget about me. I want Camelot to succeed as a musical. Put in bubble dancers if you want." To his pen pal Richard Burton he wrote: "I hope it will be borozonic. I will be there on opening night...