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...land of sounding darkness, loud with the cries of wild-eyed politicians and the gunfire of Chicago gangsters, and spottily lit by the glaring floodlights of Hollywood. About a year ago, two specialists on Anglo-American relations were gloomily talking over drinks in a London pub. The problem, they agreed, was to show America in the even light of everyday. "What we want," said Bradley Connors, public-relations counselor of the U.S. embassy, "is something like Alistair Cooke. Something that gets the flavor of America on TV as Cooke does on radio." Leonard Miall, a BBC-TV executive and onetime...
...Britain's Chief Hangman Albert Pierrepoint, 45, whose family has monopolized Britain's gallows trade for 85 years, quit his $42-a-job sideline. Although three murderers now await execution, Nooseman Pierrepoint prefers henceforth to work full time in The Rose and Crown, his three-century-old pub near Blackpool...
Post-exam skiers, sun bathers and pub crawlers face a ten-dollar fine unless they revisit Cambridge on Wednesday afternoon, February 1, popularly known as Spring Registration Day. The Abbotts, Burbouns, and on through Misanthropes register in Memorial Hall from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.; Narbonnes through Zyzerskis, 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.; and anybody can register from 4:00 p.m. until...
Carl C. Sloane. Dunster; incumbent; chairman, Better Bus. Committee; chairman, workers P.T. reduction project; Bus. Mgr., Student Council Quarterly Review; PBH, Drives Committee; Harvard Yearbook Pub.; Smoker committee; House athletics...
...over Britain were heard voices raised in admiration for 25-year-old Princess Margaret's decision to choose duty over love;* others felt only immense sympathy for her. But mixed with these solemn sounds, in many a pub in gambling-minded Britain, was the noise of bets being paid off. The London Times, which managed to editorialize on the news without mentioning Townsend by name, commended Margaret for doing what was "expected of her." The self-appointed leader of the opposite side, the brash tabloid Daily Mirror, proclaimed: "A crisis has come to the serene cloisters of the Church...