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...heard someone telling the old joke about the male robin who, upon finding a brown egg in his nest, inquired of his wife regarding this phenomenon. She replied that she had done it for a lark. The professor remembered having heard the joke retold later by a Briton who told it intact, except for the tag line, which became: "I did it for a sparrow." This, the professor insisted, made it difficult to believe in English humor...
TIME'S London bureau reported that any Briton, asked what kind of a holiday he spent, was almost certain to answer: "Absoludely biserable, thags...
...there was broken glass all over the place." Caught soon after the explosion, two young Jordanian terrorists proudly owned up to the attack. "We do not deny our acts, " they boasted. "We are hitting the enemy where we find him." In all, they injured three Americans, one Briton and eleven Greeks-one of whom, a 2½-year-old boy, died after a half-dollar-sized fragment was removed from his brain...
...Cambridge University, he developed techniques for liquefying helium and producing strong magnetic fields, and in 1929 became the first non-Briton to be elected a fellow of the Royal Society, Britain's top scientific body. But during a visit to Moscow in 1934, Kapitza was detained, reportedly on Stalin's orders, and placed in charge of the Institute of Physical Problems, a center for researchers in physics and mathematics...
...Order of Merit is the most coveted nonpolitical honor to which a Briton can aspire. Membership is restricted to 24 British subjects and is granted directly by the Crown. That honor was fittingly bestowed last week on Novelist-Humanist E. M. Forster (A Passage to India) on the eve of his 90th birthday. The sage celebrated birthday and royal gift quietly with friends, then returned to King's College, Cambridge, where he has lived as an Honorary Fellow since 1946. Age has not dulled his gentle wit. Asked if he would not some day want his death...