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When an American goes to his first cricket match you can bet he'll come away thinking he's seen the world's dullest national game. But to all Englishman, things couldn't look more different. Cricket is to him--and has been almost since Magna Carta--the one sport truly beyond comparison. Some men like soccer, and some prefer rugby, while Scotsmen may say field hockey is better than either. But none will disagree about cricket. Its lack of action is its boast, not its shame. Its long matches, which last anywhere from one afternoon to four full days...
...Struggle for Europe, by Chester Wilmot. An exceptionally well-written history of World War,II by an Englishman provocatively critical of U.S. generalship and diplomacy (TIME, March...
...difference of opinion with the principal about who was running the school"), he got a job as a copy boy on the Sun, and broke into print writing editorials at $7 a column. One day he read in John Stuart Mill's autobiography that the great Englishman had read Plato before he was ten. Not having read Plato at 15 made Adler "feel like a savage." Then & there he drew a pay advance and bought Plato's Republic. Immediately afterwards he decided 1) to go to college, 2) to become a philosopher...
...Duke of Gallodoro, by Aubrey Menen. Light sardonics about a reprobate Englishman, his sleepy Italian town, and the Mediterranean way of life (TIME...
...Duke of Gallodoro, by Aubrey Menen. Light sardonics about a reprobate Englishman, his sleepy Italian town and the Mediterranean way of life (TIME...