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...three has a washing machine, one in eight a refrigerator. Half the population spend their holidays away from home, and half the younger generation attend the movies once a week at 50? a seat. One-quarter of the adult population either play in or watch a football (soccer) or cricket match every week. All this, plus the superior feeling that one has just for being English, on an average income of $2,100 a year...
...hated sports, had to take a job at a prep school as cricket master. There ends Summoned by Bells, neither major poetry nor an exceptional life, but a memoir suffused with moving scenes of an older England, a singing recollection of what it was to be John Betjeman-young and a poet...
Died. Fu Tak-iam, 67, who started as a Cantonese doughnut peddler and wound up as the gambling czar of Macao by matching yens for fantan, cricket fights (in which trained insects do battle unto death) and cusek-a type of roulette played with dice; of a heart attack; in Hong Kong. A strapping (6 ft., 200 Ibs.) brigand, Fu was ransomed in 1946 for $150,000 when captors sent a slice of his right ear to relatives, but seven years later stalled on paying ransom for his kidnaped son until the gang proved their seriousness by slicing...
...proven"-meaning "we know you did it, but we haven't got enough to pin it on you." With justice, Scotsmen boast that their school system (which teaches the Scottish slant on British history) is superior to England's. The true Scot scorns such English institutions as cricket and fish and chips, preferring a hip-twisting Scottish reel and finnan haddie simmered in milk, which he compares to the finest French cuisine...
Neither regrets the decision. Gregson, who plans to become a classics teacher, says of Harvard: "Here I think my mind was stretched quite a bit.'' He played on the Harvard cricket team, each year collected a prize for Latin. Cecile, who hopes to join The West Indies' diplomatic corps, did well in her government major, worked with the Girl Scouts...