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Famous vacation trains, like the Cornish Riviera Express (nonstop London to Plymouth) and the Golden Arrow (London to Dover and Paris), were running again. Ex-R.A.F. pilots swarmed into the air-taxi business and got as much as ?50 ($200) for a flight to France (prewar British Airways price: a little over ?4). Britain's passport office was issuing a thousand passports a day, and hundreds of jealous wives wrote in, asking that their husbands' applications be refused; the wives suspected that the bounders merely wanted to visit wartime girl friends on the Continent. The Government...
Even before Matthew Arnold brooded thus on Dover Beach in 1867, many Christians had been oppressed by a belief that Christianity was in a perhaps fatal decline, ailing within and sore beset from without. Indeed, the Dim View has been and is almost a cliché in press and pulpit...
...January Harper's, George Henry, principal of a 350-student high school in Dover, Del., contends that a third of all high-school students can't read or write well enough to learn much of anything from textbooks. What's more, he adds gloomily, they never will be able to. Says...
Although Americans may wonder why (Bob Hope, who was born in England, confesses: "It's too fast for me"), ITMA doubles up its British listeners. Puns like "Farewell to the night shifts of Dover" or "the lease lend the soonest mended" are a Handley trademark. So are topical quips like "I haven't laughed so much since Errol Flynn captured Burma." ITMA's rapid-fire cacophony of explosions, whistles, popguns, yawps, quacks and trambells draws enthusiastic letters from Continental listeners, who can't understand English, but find the sound effects screamingly funny...
When Producer Firth Shephard begged her to take Arsenic on tour to get away from the bombs, she murmured: "Where do you suggest we start, dear - Dover?" When crusty Critic James Agate saluted her with "You are still the second most beautiful woman on the English stage," she purred: "That's quite a compliment, from the second-best critic in England." Once, leafing through an album, she came across a picture, taken ten years before, of a much younger rival actress. She studied it a moment, then sighed: "My, my, hasn't she aged...