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Today's Englishman, Miss Pullar concludes, has come full circle and ended up like the Romans, with bread-and-circuses. But what she finally cannot forgive him is the poor quality of the bread...
Table tennis, that vicious art of demolishing an opponent with reflex action, deadly patience and a featherweight celluloid ball, had its murky origins in the late 19th century. The game seems to have been invented by an American or an Englishman: it was originally promoted in Britain and the U.S. by toy and game companies, under the patented name Ping Pong. As a competitive sport, it has seldom been taken seriously in this country, and today it is usually relegated to suburban basements, where sons can wreak Oedipal vengeance on their panting middle-aged fathers...
...found himself at home with war and inept with peace. In Waterloo, he again directs less than he deploys. Psychological insight is conveyed by closeups of the stars' eyes, interminable crosscuts from the Duke of Wellington to Napoleon Bonaparte and fatuous "voiceover" soliloquies, like Napoleon's: "This Englishman has two qualities that I admire-caution, and above all courage...
...merely that in London, as a nearly unknown singer-composer of uncertain stability, he miraculously won a record contract with Apple. What really mattered was that there he met 24-year-old Peter Asher. At the time, Asher, an Englishman and a former rock performer (Peter and Gordon), had just been installed as Apple's chief talent director. He recognized Taylor's talent, signed him, then helped push the first Taylor album to completion despite the fact that Apple was beginning to come apart at the core. Asher was responsible for the fact that a year later Taylor was able...
Burrows, 44, had covered conflicts across the world-in Iraq, Lebanon, Iran, Cyprus and the Congo. But the lanky, gentle-mannered Englishman had very personal feelings about Viet Nam. "Be it exotic meetings with Madame Nhu, or sleeping on a stretcher on a Vietnamese patrol, or sharing a sock of rice with the Special Forces, this strange war fascinates me," he said. He could be diverted, but not for long. As LIFE Managing Editor Ralph Graves put it: "He spent nine years covering this war under conditions of incredible danger. We kept thinking up other, safe stories...