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...Englishman named Harry Alan Towers, 30, whipped into Manhattan and out again last week on business that, in the past year, has carried him seven times around the world. His business: the international hawking of recorded radio shows. Towers sells British programs in the U.S., U.S. recordings in Australia, Australian programs in South Africa. "I doubt," he boasts, "that you can mention a radio station in the English-speaking world where we don't do business...
...duke, an Englishman to begin with, long ago acquired his title by the brisk expedient of "buying off ten claimants, three genuine." He is a blithe-spirited cross between Machiavelli and the Medici, and a lover of beauty in the form of small boys; his villa on the hill is staffed by a butler of eleven and a footman of ten. But the duke can remember days when he was better served: "When I came here first, they used to love me for my money. Now, I fear, they love my money...
...Englishman visiting this country shortly after the marriage of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip in 1947 was astounded by the avidity with which Americans requested information about royal affairs. He had been told that Americans were contemptuous of monarchy and nobility, classing them with feudalism as holdovers from the middle ages; instead he found the royal family classed with movie stars in the sense that its private lives were considered public property...
...names, which are so much moreconnotative than denotative: "Mr. Podsnap," "Mr. Bob Sawyer," "Mr. Chops," "Monseigneur." He literally threw himself into the performance, with movements and gestures which seemed just what the author intended, and his voices were superb, whether he was the narrator, the young fop, the chauvinistic Englishman, the crotchety landlady, the Marquis, or the signal...
...first time, makes divorce possible -though still very difficult-for Hindu women. Wrote Brahmachari: "The Hindu Code Bill will ruin religion, confuse castes, undermine the authority of the Scriptures, damage Hindu culture, split every family, pit brothers against sisters, and profit only lawyers." Nehru, he said, is "a black Englishman [who] studied in the West . . . and is so stuffed with its ways that he wants us all to adopt Christian customs...