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...Warriors (Allied Artists). "Ten Frenchmen to one Englishman? That's about right," sneers the Black Prince (Errol Flynn). The Constable of France...
Time is the safest of chaperones. Peter Quennell, an Englishman of letters with a well-dressed mind and an impeccable literary accent, who presumably never hobnobs with the spivs, tarts and cosh artists of contemporary London, is nevertheless a knowing and fascinating guide among the harlots and bullies, the stews and sponging houses of 18th century London...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born 200 years ago come next Jan. 27, in Salzburg. At seven, he was examined by a scientifically inclined Englishman who published his findings about the "amazing and incredible" boy. But despite early promise Mozart died (at 35) leaving the world largely unappreciative of his 600-odd compositions and his towering stature as composer.-In 1956, practically every musical organization from Valparaiso to Vienna will stage some kind of commemoration, aware that the 20th century cannot produce a genuine allegro...
...incredulous. "Not in the very least!" he snapped. With that, Lieut. Colonel Wintle (ret.) wheeled and marched off to six months in prison at Wormwood Scrubs. Said London's Daily Express admiringly: "You may say or think what you like about Alfred Wintle. But here is an Englishman...
...Orthodoxy. Like many men whose creeds and professions strike others as romantic and even fantastic, Robert Graves is in most ways a down-to-earth type of man. Son of an Irish songwriter he was born at Wimbledon (a London suburb) in 1895, describes himself as "a true-born Englishman." His education was orthodox British (at Charterhouse and Oxford); so, for his generation, was his service with the Royal Welch Fusiliers in World War I, when he was so badly wounded that he was listed as "killed in action...