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...perform in a kilt-others would be dressing up). The laws forbid game shooting (except rabbits), beekeeping demonstrations, milk deliveries between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., buying bread at the baker's after i :30 p.m. (although it is possible to borrow a loaf and pay later). A Briton may buy toothpaste but not a toothbrush, may have his shoes repaired but may not buy shoelaces. He is not supposed to ride in a boat (but excursion boats do a rollicking business at every seaside resort). He is not supposed to travel more than five miles away from home...
Shakespeare & Gangsters. As a result of such wild reporting in Britain's press many a Briton is led to believe that the U.S. is dominated by Senators Joe McCarthy and Pat McCarran, and that it is a slick, grossly materialistic country populated by bathing beauties, crooners, gangsters and political strong-arm men. Americans have a stereotype of Britain too, says the Manchester Guardian's U.S. Correspondent Alistair Cooke, but it is usually a flattering picture of "Shakespeare, dignified gentlemen, and so on," while Britons, from their press, often think the U S is made up of "jukeboxes, gangsters...
...Many a Briton shares Dr. Flexner's disdain. "Not one Etonian or Harrovian in a thousand," wrote University of Liverpool Professor Edgar Allison Peers, "would consider entering a shabby modern university, unlovely in appearance, unmellowed by tradition, and attended by men who actually live with their families and probably have only the faintest idea of the respective significance of a dinner jacket and a white waistcoat...
From a special panel of three world-renowned lawyers this week came an air-clearing legal pronouncement on the cloudy questions of patriotism, Communism and loyalty among international civil servants of the United Nations. The lawyers-an American, a Briton and a Belgian-unanimously advised U.N. Secretary General Trygve Lie that he not only may, but should, fire from the U.N. Secretariat any persons who are active members of the U.S. Communist Party...
...antiquities of Egypt and Jerusalem, and flights over Bagdad and Damascus, even in the darkest days of war. And he had the G.I.'s souvenir-hunting spirit: at Teheran, he tried to "liberate" one of Stalin's desk-pad doodles, and was miffed when a Briton beat...