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...Cocos Islands, a group of 27 coral islets whose tall coconut palms are fanned by the soft trade winds of the Indian Ocean midway between Ceylon and Australia. Until last week, one of the loneliest men there was its benevolent ruler: king John Clunies-Ross, a slim young (22) Briton who rules the 1,200 copra-gathering islanders under a 999-year charter granted by Queen Victoria to his great-greatgrandfather, Ross I, a Scot from the Shetland Isles, who settled there...
...talk went on, the Mufti's men passed out word that there would be a six weeks' moratorium on killings. After that, if the Mufti & Co. did not get their way, violence would start up again. Likely first target: John Bagot Glubb, the Briton who heads the Arab Legion...
...Jake LaMotta, whom Robinson later beat five times. *Remarked one Briton: "I hear Cadillac has agreed never to paint another like that." His friend, after a thoughtful pause: "No, really? But still, I shouldn't think there'd be many chaps who'd want that color...
Czarist Parallel. Few historians are better equipped to tell this story than Briton Arthur Bryant. In two previous books (The Years of Endurance, Years of Victory), he covered the decades 1793-1812 with the grasp of a Gibbon, the imagination of an epic novelist. The Age of Elegance is the last of a trilogy and, if anything, more readable than the others...
...available to test the accuracy of Wellington's guess that Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, but recent surveys tend to show that Britain is not nearly so sports-minded as she thought she was. London's Economist last week reported that for every Briton who plays a game, two sit watching and 20 go to the cinema. Even more disillusioning: of 191 million Britons who watched sporting matches in 1949, only 2.6% chose cricket...