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Boos & Bobbies. Hale, hearty and outfitted with more changes of costume than Goring, the marshal was treated to all the big architectural, historical and political sights of London. He saw the Magna Carta (without comment), Shakespeare's signature and other treasures in the British Museum, visited the Tower, had a good look at Windsor Castle, took in Swan Lake at the Royal Opera House and presented roses and gladioli to Ballerina Moira Shearer. When they were lucky enough to catch him on one of his unannounced rounds and to see past the screen of plainclothesmen, bobbies and motorcycle cops...
...Britain with a high professional polish. But the competence of the first show, a playlet dealing with an insurance agent falsely accused of murder and attempted rape, was overshadowed by the glossy commercials delivered in pear-shaped tones by Douglas Fairbanks Jr. himself, and including asides on the Magna Carta and the American Revolution, and the suggestion that the international set is rapidly abandoning pink champagne in favor of the more dizzying delights of Rheingold beer...
When an American goes to his first cricket match you can bet he'll come away thinking he's seen the world's dullest national game. But to all Englishman, things couldn't look more different. Cricket is to him--and has been almost since Magna Carta--the one sport truly beyond comparison. Some men like soccer, and some prefer rugby, while Scotsmen may say field hockey is better than either. But none will disagree about cricket. Its lack of action is its boast, not its shame. Its long matches, which last anywhere from one afternoon to four full days...
...years, generations of royal swans have lived a fine life on the Thames, admired and fed by folk from Magna Carta Island to the Tower of London...
...Going back to Magna Carta . . ." said Tory M.P. Sir Herbert Williams in the House of Commons question period last week, "has not a British subject an unqualified right to leave this country and to come back...