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Unexpected Trouble. Johnson, an Englishman who is a teaching pro at the Racquet Club underrated his amateur opponent ("I didn't think he'd give me any trouble"). But in last week's match Johnson found Knox's "bloody bobbly little serve" difficult to return. Knox was deadly in putting the ball into the dedans and grille, often hitting the tambour, a jutting buttress off which the ball caroms almost parallel to the net. In three days' play, he ran through Johnson seven sets to two, became the first amateur to win the world open...
Former Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden, following the titled Englishman's traditional way to pin money, put some furniture on sale at Sotheby's auction rooms in London, realized $271.60 for a pair of four-poster beds, $1,232 for two 18th century bookcases...
John Betjeman, 52, is a gentle, witty, rumpled Englishman who has been called "the greatest bad poet now living." It would be in character if he agreed with that estimate, although he can be called "bad" only in the sense that his rhymes sometimes jingle like a song writer's and that his subjects are often deliberately homely. Literary bookmakers predict that Betjeman (rhymes with fetch-a-man) will be England's next poet laureate. By last week, his Collected Poems had caused a rush on British bookstores probably unmatched by any newly published work of poetry since...
...people buy his verse ("I don't call it poetry"), and he describes himself as "a passionate observer of the second-rate." Actually, Betjeman observes a great deal more than the second-rate. He has a unique eye for the twilight of changing times, although he is one Englishman who looks neither back in anger nor forward in fear. He is perhaps the sharpest and yet gentlest landscape poet now writing in English, whether he lyrically describes a summer meadow or peers with sane, affectionate exasperation...
Kindly Stygian. Betjeman's nostalgia is for the Victorian past; his heart is in its poor remnants, and he frankly calls himself "a case of arrested development." He was raised comfortably in London, great-grandson of a Dutch-descended Englishman who grew rich on inventions such as the tantalus, a contrivance to keep Victorian housemaids out of the port. Betjeman went to Oxford's Magdalen College, where he detested his tutor (Author C. S. Lewis), failed to get a degree because he forgot to take "divvers" (divinity...