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Chief Proprietor John Walter III (grandson of the founder) ; sturdy, gregarious Editor John Thadeus Delane; shy, lettered Manager (managing editor) Mowbray Morris. During those years The Times made itself the paper of every middle-class Englishman's breakfast table by vociferously championing the bourgeoisie that was climbing to power on the shoulders of a decaying aristocracy...
Nora Waln's Reaching for the Stars would do this majority good. A 43-year-old Pennsylvania Quaker, Nora Wain married an Englishman in the service of the Chinese government, went with him to Germany when he resigned to study music. They arrived a few days before the Blood Purge of June 1934, returned to England last April...
Although the debonair Englishman was glad to give what advice he thought he could regarding college tennis, he was most interested in talking about tennis in general and his own and Don Budge's game in particular. He characterized his own style as that of a "defensive retriever," while Budge was a "power house." "I keep my opponent stretching and Don smashes the ball at his feet...
...this theory came back across the Atlantic, Dr. Segal stood up for his experiments, prepared to refute the Lancet's psychological argument. Pointing proudly to the beaming face of one of his "heroes" he said: "That Lancet editorial must have been written by an elderly pipe-smoking Englishman of the philosophical type...
MURDER TO HOUNDS-Edward Acheson-Harcourt, Brace ($2). Murder in a neurotic fox-hunting Virginia family, combining an innocuous love story with the most engaging Englishman in recent crime fiction...