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...Englishman wins the first round on the basis of two hard, short rights to Robinson's head. After this, the American begins piling up points. Round after round he does most of the moving, most of the punching. But it is not an altogether convincing performance. He throws too many punches and lands too few. Turpin seems to be pacing himself better. Although his right, with which he often leads is a clumsy downward punch, his left is straight, hard, and quick. Several times Robinson's head snaps back from it. Both noses are red. In the third Robinson hits...
...Englishman living in California sent a clipping of the letter to the Newmarket Journal, which printed it without comment last week. Newmarket (pop. 9,767) exploded. "Damned cheek!" snorted outraged townsfolk in bus queues and pubs. Growled George Goult, chairman of the urban district council: "I and the rest of the town take a very poor view of it... We shall refute it officially." London tabloids stirred up a fuss...
...close student of his tough, gunpowdery great-grandfather, he came to doubt that the first Duke ever uttered the sonorous bit of snobbery so dear to generations of British orators: "The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton." So last month he did what any Englishman would do under the circumstances: he wrote a letter to the editor of the Times. In it, he offered to pay ?50 to the National Playing Fields Association if anyone could prove when and by whom the words were first said...
Died. Arthur Margetson, 54, British-born actor (Claudia, The Play's the Thing) who spent 34 years shuttling back & forth between London and Broadway productions, liked best the role of a humorous, stuffed-shirted Englishman, which he played in his last Manhattan appearance (1950's Clutterbuck); of cancer; in London...
...part-time novelist, Author Mathew, Roman Catholic archbishop and Apostolic Delegate for Eastern and Western British Africa, is less charitable than his fellow novelist, Cardinal Spellman (The Foundling). A 49-year-old Englishman who started out to be a Navy officer, he shows nearly as much contempt as compassion for his cast of travelers. He wastes no time storytelling. Instead, having his characters where he wants them, he expertly lays bare their frustrations and the cheap ambitions that spur them on. When he brings them down with engine trouble, it is only to show how they disintegrate in adversity...