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...English rival of Punch once printed a cartoon of a man struck with amazement, and labeled it: "Portrait of a Gentleman Finding a Joke in Punch" Like some Englishmen, many Americans who have seen 105-year-old Punch are rarely amused by its jokes, even after laborious explanations. But last week, with its home circulation at an alltime high (184,000), London's most ancient & honorable humorous weekly confidently invaded the U.S. market, intending to be laughed at, not laughed...
...cried Ilya, "the imperialists with their criminally aggressive plans [are] dreaming of plunging humanity into a sanguinary whirlpool of a new war. . . . Americans carry an atom bomb in one pocket and an Easter egg in the other. Against us are those Americans who are against the American people, those Englishmen who are against the English people, those Frenchmen who are against the French people . . . but in every country we have one friend, the people. . . . May Day will conquer...
...invited me up to his place. His father, who had been an officer in the German Imperial Navy, had transformed the best room of the apartment into a replica of a U-boat. Each evening a sacred ritual took place. The father would assemble the whole family to "sink Englishmen." Through a circular hole (all that was left of the window) he would push a kind of telescope; bells rang, red and green lights flashed, and everybody roared commands through megaphones. When it was over and three English cruisers were sunk, I was asked how I liked it. I told...
...would be "very difficult," said Stalin, to reverse a decree of the Supreme Soviet. "It is clear," wrote the thoughtful Manchester Guardian, "that he [Good-willer Kuznetsov] thought it a very trivial matter. He could hardly be more mistaken. The truth is that to the great majority of Englishmen this means a much simpler test of the virtues and vices of the Soviet system than all the five-year plans and statistics which have come out of Russia...
...clothes, insect control, new drugs (e.g., atabrine). Wartime scientific research, which solved many of the problems of tropical living, also debunked a few old notions: that meat-eating in the tropics is bad, that white men cannot do physical labor in the hot season, that only "mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday...