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...nations killed in the Battle of Waterloo: "We have had many ceremonies this week. You might call this one eccentric, in line with the curious behavior of the English." I did make the comment that same day when planting an oak tree to commemorate the first cricket match ever played in Belgium by British officers on the eve of the battle. The ceremony at Hougoumont, however, was a solemn and very impressive religious service, and your report places these words in the wrong context...
...Austin rolling merrily across a field-apparently with nobody at the wheel. "Jim was told he must never do that again," says Mrs. Clark. "But you can't watch an active boy all the time, can you?" Shipped off to private school, Jim learned all about rugby, cricket, field hockey, golf-and not much else. So he quit at 16 and went home. "Normally there were two shepherds on the farm," he recalls, "but one of them had left just about the time I came home. My father bought me a dog and a stick and said, 'Right...
...British had to settle for a Brussels embassy ball, which Spaak (and of course the French ambassador) managed to miss, a re-enactment of the cricket game staged on the eve of the battle, and a memorial service on the battle site for the slain of all nations, including the French. This was conducted last week in a drenching rain in the presence of 1,100 stiff-lipped British soldiers standing wetly to attention. Announced Britain's ambassador in Belgium, Sir Roderick Barclay: "We have had many ceremonies this week. You might call this one eccentric, in line with...
...often hard to tell whether he is spoofing the upper-crust Briton or simply being one. On his travels, like any Blimp setting off on safari, he packs his portmanteaus with sartorial accouterments for every conceivable occasion: white flannels for tennis, plus fours for golf, blazer for cricket, bowler, boater and deerstalker, tweeds, pinstripes, tails. Everything but the old elephant gun. He claims that he needs all those togs for professional use, but offstage he is seldom seen wearing the wrong suit or the same one twice. In real life he is as wildly gallant and exaggeratedly debonair...
...just hired its first Negro reporter; but 40% of the interns, orderlies and nonprofessional workers in Britain's hospitals are colored, 17% of the nurses' aides, and from 20% to 40% of the bus and underground employees in London and Birmingham. On the plus side, West Indian cricket stars have played in English professional leagues, while the fad for American-style (and Negro-based) rock 'n' roll has helped make sultry Shirley Bassey, daughter of an English mother and a Jamaican father, one of the top two or three British women singers...