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When the flame is lighted in Athens this August, the Olympic Games will have returned to their rightful home - correct? Tell it to the townsfolk of Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire, England, where they've been hosting their own version of the Games off and on since 1612. Indeed, if Pierre de Coubertin, who founded the modern Olympics in 1896, had been taken literally when he asserted that "The Anglo-Saxon race is the only one that fully appreciates the moral influence of physical culture," we all might have been spared synchronized swimming. Instead we might be cheering as the world...
...talk with a steward made him wonder. The Wills Gold Flake (cigaret) factory at Bristol pleased him. But the suburbs of Birmingham he found "beastly," and the benevolent despotism of Cadbury's cocoa factory at Bournville depressed him. Cutting through the Cotswold Hills he came on Chipping Campden, medieval wool trade centre, now a carefully preserved Arcadia, and Broadway, whose fame as a pretty village has attracted swarms of bright young people "in gamboge and vermilion sports cars...
...among present-day poets, and has also a reputation as a playwright. Some of the works by which he has won wide recognition ares "Salt Water Ballads," "A Tarpaulin Muster," "Captain Margaret," "The Street of Today," and "The Daffodil Fields." Among his plays which have been produced are: "The Campden Wonder," "Man," and "Pompey the Great." At Yale, at the University of Pennsylvania, at Wellesley, and many other colleges, Mr. Masefield has been extended a warm welcome, and his lectures have been received with unusual appreciation. Apparently no effort is being made to bring him to Harvard...
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