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...Revolution and she's a sore loser." Other reporters complained that when they tried to get close enough to the Princess to hear her quotes, they were elbowed out by Miss James. One remembered the way she dealt with a U.S. photographer who got in her way: the Briton called him an "American...
...more than a magnificent phallic symbol. Normally, such preposterous stuff would be dismissed as beneath serious discussion. But in this case the author is a maverick philologist of some scholarly standing: John M. Allegro, 47, former lecturer on the Old Testament at the University of Manchester and the first Briton on the international team of editors of the Dead Sea Scrolls...
...Called Horse is actually Lord Morgan, an aristocratic Englishman in search of big game in the forests of the New World, circa 1825. According to the laws of adventure fiction, a highborn Briton who wanders into the wilderness must undergo total metamorphosis before he can be let out. Lord Greystoke's scion, for instance, went into Africa as a cherubic infant and emerged as Tarzan of the Apes...
...From Sea Shells. Most important, the company has drastically modernized its management. Royal Dutch/Shell has been one of the world's most complex organizations ever since 1907, when Marcus Samuel, the Briton who started out trading in sea shells and was one of the pioneers in the use of oil tankers, joined his "Shell" Transport & Trading Co. with the Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. Even today, Shell consists of those two parent companies, which through two holding companies own or control hundreds of firms round the world, including the U.S.'s Shell Oil Co.* For years Royal Dutch/Shell...
Nixon's appointment of Publisher Walter Annenberg as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's has only reinforced that view. Annenberg lacks his recent predecessors' instinctive knowledge of Britain. He also lacks their style. Asked by a Briton for his opinion of the special relationship, Annenberg replied: "I have always maintained that England and America belong in bed together...