Word: viii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Bertrand Edward Dawson, First Viscount Dawson of Penn, 80, physician to Britain's Edward VII, George V, Edward VIII, George VI; of pneumonia; in London. First British medical peer since Lister, he shocked the House of Lords with his outspoken views on birth control ("you should not have self-control when you are making love"), prohibition ("alcohol aids the digestion, brightens the outlook"), divorce ("when a marriage's main purpose is frustrated it ceases to have spiritual meaning"). He penned the famed sentence broadcast when George V lay a-dying in 1936: "The King's life...
...eyed, Tasmanian-born cinemactress, announced that she planned to divorce Sir Alexander Korda, 51, slim, Hungarian-born British cinema producer, because they had failed "to work out separate lives and careers." Lady Korda, who became a star in her husband's best movie, The Private Life of Henry VIII, said that during five years of marriage they had seen each other infrequently, added: "I feel . . . so awful. . . Alex and I have been friends for such a long time. I hope everything will be all right with us as friends." Sir Alexander arrived in Manhattan from England, said nothing...
Billy Rose, Broadway's squash-shaped supershowman, announced that with Shakespeare-wise Director Margaret Webster he was planning a splendiferous production of Henry VIII...
...Scene VIII: on the Floor. As the boos mounted, the band and organ played, and then, from the wings of the Stadium, poured an endless procession of Kelly workers, with Lucas signs: BUSINESS...
State of a Nation. As Year VIII began, the burden on China's broad and patient back had never seemed so grievous, her strength to bear it never so taxed...