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Since becoming a U. S. citizen after his retirement from the sea to Connecticut in 1925, big, blond, 57-year-old William McFee has brooded constantly over the misfortune that Americans (unlike Englishmen) have no solidified caste system. As a result, he says, the U. S. masses are forever filled with diseased aspirations to ape the rich, and the U. S. rich are forever uneasy in their "fear of revolt and the destruction of their ordered existence...
...Horace has hitherto declined invitations to visit Continental statesmen with the dry comment: "Thank you, but I am not one of those Englishmen who travel abroad," never dreaming he would have to fly to Berchtesgaden fortnight ago, to Godesberg last week...
...prehistoric lake in Utah last week, two 200-lb. Englishmen wrestled for a world title. One was bespectacled George Edward Thomas Eyston, 41-year-old retired British Army captain, the defending champion. The other was moon-faced John Cobb, 37-year-old London fur broker, the challenger. Over Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats, considered the most satisfactory auto-racing strip in the world,* the two Englishmen, with no more fanfare than two moppets sliding down a hill to see who could go farther, took turns to see who could come closer to traveling six miles a minute-and incidentally...
...second (the muzzle velocity of a high calibre revolver bullet is 700 feet a second). Oldsters along the course sighed as they remembered the turn-of-the-Century astonishment when Henry Ford's 999 traveled at the incredible speed of a mile a minute. Scientists agreed that the Englishmen could not travel much faster and live to tell about it (present rubber tires can take just so much friction). King-for-a-day Cobb, who had originally intended to continue the contest as long as weather permitted, blinked his eyes, decided to call it quits for this year...
...many-tongued Europe opera is usually sung in the language of the country where it is performed. In France Pagliacci becomes Paillasse, in Germany Bajazzo. But Americans, like Englishmen, take their opera neat, and often swallow an entire performance without understanding more than a few words...