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...footnote appended to your story concerning the death of Abd el Krim [Feb. 15] indicates that President Theodore Roosevelt was responsible for the famed ultimatum to Raisuli, the notorious Moroccan bandit who had captured and was holding for ransom Ion Perdicaris, a naturalized American, and his stepson, an Englishman named Varley. As a matter of fact it was the brainchild of E. M. ("Eddie") Hood, one of the most revered members of the Washington staff of the Associated Press, Hood was assigned to the State Department many years and because of his knowledge and personality became the confidant of each...
Hence the value of Burke's, which is often called "the Englishman's Bible." Founded in 1826 by John Burke (whose son became Sir Bernard in time for the 17th edition), the book is a kind of Who Was Who that lists more than 150,000 names, and traces each lordly family back to its earliest noble ancestor, thus clearly differentiating survivors of the old, landowning aristocracy from the plebeian parvenus whose titles, created in the past half-century, now represent more than 50% of the peerage...
Last week, conceding that his wheeling and dealing "might not be a proper Englishman's cup of tea," ebullient Bill Zeckendorf announced Evacuation Day for the hapless British. He acknowledged that his three British representatives, as well as three Americans whom the British had named to the board, had resigned as directors (though the British hold on to their 15% of Webb & Knapp stock). The British had found Zeckendorf impossible to harness or control. Barely controlling his own glee at having shucked off his British advisers, Zeckendorf piously admitted: "They thought that they could reform...
Lawrence of Arabia. A handsome new comer named Peter O'Toole is the star of this great big beautiful $10,000,000 spectacle-produced by Sam Spiegel and directed by David Lean-that describes the amazing adventures of a peculiar young Englishman who became the guerrilla genius of World War 1, but the customers will find themselves more fascinated by the landscape in which the story was filmed, by the infinite billowing sea of golden sand that covers Arabia Deserta...
There seems to be a limit to how much tea even an Englishman can drink. Since 1958. per capita consumption of tea in Britain has stuck stubbornly at 10.2 lbs. a year per man, woman and mewling babe. To many a British tea merchant this seems disquieting indeed. But not to London's Brooke Bond & Co., Ltd., which for nearly a decade has been capturing an additional 2% of Britain's total tea sales from its competitors each year. Today, with 33% of the market, Brooke Bond is Britain's-and the world's-largest...