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...showed same to one of my office friends, a loyal Briton...
Ralph Heyward Isham is a 45-year-old American (though he looks and talks like a Briton) who is fond of 18th Century books and of having his own way. Because he also inherited a sizeable fortune and because he was willing to spend large chunks of it to buy what he wanted, he has one of the world's best collections of 18th Century English literature. Like other collectors he had heard of the Malahide papers. Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia's famed dealer, had cabled a bid of $250,000 for them. Lord Talbot...
...Losing their claws might kill the crabs," cracked a Briton. "All the better for eating!" cracked back Mr. Amau...
...Goddard, became the season's socialion. Called upon for a speech, he dodged: "Hollywood leaves me speechless," sat down. Later he developed a pat speech praising technical develop ments in U. S. cinema. Up to last week Author Wells firmly preserved the appearance of a pleasant, reserved, phlegmatic Briton. Last week, ready to leave the U. S., h.e was asked to pose for news-cameramen. Gaily borrowing a camera, he stuck a press badge in his hat, pretended to be snapping Musicomedy Star Ethel (You're the Top) Merman (see cut). Asked in Manhattan for a statement...
...TIME, Dec. 16, under the report of the trial of Lord de Clifford, you say, "Under the Magna Charta it is the right of every Briton to be tried by his peers-i. e. . . . a lord by the House of Lords." Why does TIME imply that this right originated in the Magna Charta? The right of a lord to be tried by his peers was just as much the law during the reign of William the Conqueror as during the reign of King John. This custom originated in the early Middle Ages and was the right of every vassal (lord...