Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happens all the time. An ex-school teacher, nice fellow, intellectual and all that, turns around and knocks out a song and it becomes a big hit. The former teacher in this case is an Englishman named Geoff Stevens, 32, who even sang along in the recording, he says, "just for a giggle." Last week Stevens' Winchester Cathedral, released only six weeks ago in the U.S., had sold 1,000,000 recordings, become No. 1 on Billboard's list of bestsellers, and made stars out of the recording "artists," a British group of young...
...were founded by an Englishman...
...people who were caught up in it. By and large, they have succeeded. Although the text by New York Times Columnist C. L. Sulzberger is sometimes stiff and distant, the book contains engrossing eyewitness accounts from such diverse types as a Japanese kamikaze pilot, a Berlin housewife, an Englishman at Dunkirk and a U.S. Marine sergeant on Guam. By far the best value is found in the 720 pictures (92 in color), which capture the events from the Treaty of Versailles to the rise of Hitler to the Japanese surrender on the deck of the Missouri...
...There is an old French anecdote about the Englishman who, having crossed the Channel for the first time, lands in Calais and observes that the first woman he meets has red hair, and thus quickly concludes that all French girls are redheads. He is a good example of the Soviet journalist...
...narrator, oddly enough, is a young Englishman named Manning who is working on his thesis at Moscow University. He is hired as an interpreter by a countryman, Gordon Proctor-Gould, who bears a striking resemblance to Greville Wynne, the British salesman who in fact ran secrets for Russian Spy Oleg Penkovsky before the Soviets nabbed them both in 1962. Proctor-Gould may or may not be in the intelligence game himself (he, of course, denies it), but Frayn, a satiric columnist for the London Observer, cannot resist giving him a bizarre cover job: he recruits everyday Russians for appearance...