Word: lancelots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crummiest "philosophy" ever scraped out of the bottom of a cracker barrel. There is the stool pigeon who is efficiently murdered by his fellow convicts; and the steady old hand (Charles Bickford) who grimly joins the rebels when his parole is canceled. The one comparative novelty-Calypso Singer Sir Lancelot, improvising verses about the prisoners-seems like stale...
...Lancelot Splay...
Many a U.S. schoolboy has wandered in the bright worlds into which Artist N.C. (for Newell Convers) Wyeth made many a window. With the Deerslayer, Sir Lancelot and Long John Silver, they have hunted, dueled, and sailed the painted spaces where no real harm ever comes to heroes. Wyeth had a high talent for getting the maximum of action into his adventure illustrations with the minimum of gross bloodshed which might offend parents more than boys...
Princess Margaret Rose, 15, under the weather for days though up & around in public, had her royal appendix removed in her Buckingham Palace bedroom. Participating: Sir Lancelot Barrington-Ward (her father's surgeon), four doctors, six special nurses. All went well...
Died. William W. Norton, 54, publisher (W. W. Norton & Co.) of popular books on tough, unpopular subjects (e.g., Lancelot Hogben's Mathematics for the Million'), chairman of the Council on Books in Wartime, which sponsored the widely read Armed Services Editions; of a rare blood disease; in Manhattan...