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Lecturing at Oxford on Jews who have been forced to flee from Germany, Sir John Simpson announced that thus far in Britain these refugees have done so well that they have given jobs to 25,000 Englishmen. Sir John blandly concluded a warm plea for more refugees saying, "Thus far the number of jobs they have given our people exceeds the number of refugees...
...Noyes sought to learn why the Holy Office thought Voltaire worthy of condemnation. He was informed that he would be told only if he would write the Holy Office a letter which, by implication, would acknowledge his errors. Unwilling to make any such blind recantation, Author Noyes did what Englishmen often do when highly irritated. He appealed to the London Times, which last fortnight printed the documents of the case, including the Holy Office letter. Others...
...readers are used to Englishmen's relentless output of travel books about the U. S. But for an American to write a travel book about England is still a novelty. Wife of a Ph.D. (brother of Publisher Richard Simon) who spent a year in England on an exchange professorship, 28-year-old Margaret Halsey has added enough wisecracks to make her novelty also a likely bestseller. Divested of wisecracks, Author Halsey's English impressions are surprisingly charitable - kinder than most English impressions of the U. S., kinder than Peggy Bacon's illustrations, and much kinder than...
...latest book, Three Guineas, tall, droopy-eyed Virginia Woolf, longtime queen of London's literary Bloomsbury, ridiculed men's (meaning, of course, Englishmen's) clothes. Dress, said she, is worn by women: 1) to cover the body, 2) for beauty's sake, 3) for men's sake; by men: to advertise rank and position. Woolf on Englishmen's full dress clothes: "How many, how splendid, how extremely ornate...
...played at ancient St. Andrews. Hailed as the greatest discovery since Jones, Jim Bruen, who weighs 200 Ib. and can make an eagle 3 look simple on a 530-yd. hole, was promptly named on the British Walker Cup team the day before his 18th birthday-along with five Englishmen, two Scots...