Word: britons
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...Briton caused Malik's face to redden as he derided "the queer, upside-down language . . . employed by U.S.S.R. propaganda . . . We really do seem to be living in a rather nightmarish Alice-in-Wonderland world...
Grieger was finally released from jail, but got into trouble again. In a Warsaw cafe one day, he stopped to talk to a British visitor who was sitting at a table with three pretty Polish girls and a Communist functionary. When the Briton proposed a toast to "these nice girls here" and the King of England, the Communist shouted: "We won't drink to the - King. It will be to Stalin." Says ex-R.A.F.-man Grieger: "I don't know what happened, but I slugged him." Before he could be arrested, Grieger ran. At the border...
...many a Briton dickered with an old school tie, a high point of the year is the June day when he and his kind flock to Lords cricket grounds to watch the Eton-Harrow match. But last week another Eton-Harrow match was causing comment in London. In the oak-paneled rooms of Eton's drawing schools, 40 framed samples of schoolboy handwriting were competing for first honors in the ancient art of calligraphy...
...Argentine diplomat blew a whistle in a New Delhi nightclub one evening last week. Results: most of the protocol officers in India's foreign office lost their Saturday afternoon holiday, armed policemen were called out to patrol the Imperial Hotel, a bearded Briton was booked for assault and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru found himself in the midst of an international incident...
...whistle was one of those which nightclub owners the world over love to pass out to their customers. Tootled shrilly by Argentine Ambassador Oscar Tascherest in the Imperial's supper club, it profoundly irritated the girl companion of a young British ex-officer named John Edwards. The Briton suggested that the Argentine desist. When Tascherest ignored the suggestion, Edwards took a tumbler of water and dropped a tiny trickle on the ambassador's head "to cool him off a bit." Tascherest retaliated by hurling a highball, with glass, at Edwards. "I thought then," explained Edwards later, "that...