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...First Englishman. In 1935 another amateur digger, London Dentist Alvan T. Marston, found a fossil bone 24 ft. below the surface in Swanscombe's Barnfield...
...their honeymoon, and son John started digging as soon as he was old enough to handle a small trowel. In Barnfield Pit they found plenty of crude flint tools, but for years neither they nor other diggers found anything very interesting. The great prizes-more bones of "the first Englishman" or clues to the life he led-did not show up in hundreds of tons of carefully picked-over gravel...
...heroine, a grave-eyed, gentle-born girl of 16 named Mira. When her brother Kitsamy brings an Oxford classmate, Richard Marlowe, home with him after graduation, Mira is so blushing-bold as to beg her mother to let her go on an unchaperoned swimming party with the handsome blond Englishman. Mama quickly scotches that outing, and British officialdom does the rest by ordering Richard off to his colonial duties...
...time of their last visit, a brief biography, whether it is "Mr. Fairfield" or "Jack." Once, flying to Britain for a meeting with Members of Parliament, he had aides get out photographs of the 120 M.P.s who had visited SHAPE and thumbnail biographies of each. Said an awed Englishman: "When he walked into Parliament, he knew every damn one of them, greeted them by name, adding remarks like 'How's your new daughter...
...years until she is suitably aged for his gourmet pallet. If it ever took itself any more seriously than a popping champagne cork, Aspects of Love would be silly and embarrassing. But in his neo-pagan way, Novelist Garnett, 63, is deftly amusing. He also demonstrates that if an Englishman really tries, he can be a lot more Gallic than the Gauls -at least on paper...