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...Books (35?) For a country with about as many English-speaking people as North Carolina, South Africa exports a high quota of readable novels. The latest on this fall's list is Daphne Rooke's Ratoons. Novelist Rooke (Mittee) takes in the conflict of Zulu against Hindu, Englishman against Boer on a turn-of-the-century sugar plantation, but the drama of racial tensions serves mainly as a backdrop for a melodrama of personal relationships...
...grew reminiscent. "I notice that the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize was Mr. Rudyard Kipling, and that another equally rewarded was Mr. Bernard Shaw... I knew them both quite well, and my thought was much more in accord with Mr. Rudyard Kipling. On the other hand, Mr. Rudyard Kipling never thought much of me, whereas Mr. Bernard Shaw* often expressed himself in the most flattering terms...
Spiers was still defiant: "Every penny we had has gone into this fight." Out of work now and ailing, he was keeping his family on $10.50 a week. "I shall stand by my rights. I am an Englishman and I fought for my country . . ." Mrs. Spiers was with him to the bitter end. "I'll take Eva back to school," she said, "in slacks. Then it is up to the police...
With these two as the outstanding actors in This Music is Clive Parry, who handles his role of a jaded and cynical Englishman with...
...command the attention of the world. The weight of his years (he will be 79 next month) lay on his stooped shoulders, he had been ill for four months, yet in authority and eloquence and in the ability to rise to an occasion, there was still no other Englishman around to match Sir Winston Churchill. He proved it again last week. His platform was the Winter Gardens at Margate, where 4,000 Tory bigwigs sat in party convention beneath a panoply of Union Jacks. They sang For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, and cheered until the rafters rang...