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Norman Douglas, Aldous Huxley and many other famed Englishmen prefer living in Italy to living in England for climatic, artistic, economic, gastronomic and other reasons. John Gialdini, Anglo-Italian banker, former partner of super-swindler Clarence Charles Hatry (TIME, Oct. 21, et seq.) has one all sufficient reason for living in Italy: there is no criminal extradition treaty between Italy and Britain. Last week he was more than ever satisfied with his Italian domicile. His four former partners-pale and spectacular Clarence Hatry, stolid Albert Edward Tabor, colorless Edmund Daniels and Charles Graham Dixon-stood...
There is undoubtedly a moral to this, too obvious to point out, and the crowd will await the outcome with patience--but fortunately. Englishmen are also noted for their self-restraint...
...Englishmen, in the light of American progress, are considered notoriously backward. Various exaggerated accounts are wafted across the Atlantic concerning the tea hour in business offices and regulation of theatre-program jokes. With this opinion firmly in mind, the average American notes with great amusement the news from London that the Times is to make a radical departure in the direction of human interest and, owing to the increasing popularity of the cross-word puzzle, will include one such feature daily in its pages, in addition to the usual chess problem. With--a hearty laugh the business man turns...
...there's "Saki". Anyone who hasn't read "Saki" (the pen-name of H. H. Munro, an Englishman killed in the War) should, and anyone who has read him will do so again without any blurbs from the Vagabond. "Saki" is the entrepreneur between Englishmen and morals and a delighted audience. He is the epitome of sophisticated wit, a judicious mixture of cynicism and sentiment, and charming withal. His good-natured satire falls as lightly on milord and lady as on the foibles of the charwoman next door...
...Because they knew that mild carbon monoxide poisoning simulates alcoholic intoxication two eminent Englishmen, John Scott Haldane, 69, honorary professor and director of Birmingham University Mining Research Laboratory, and Leonard Erskine Hill, 63, famed physiologist, recently saved a hapless Englishman from gaol. The fellow and two friends had drunk some beer before he took them for a ride in his closed motor car. The car bogged in a pool of water. Trying to pull out, he raced his motor for about 15 minutes, when he became drowsy. A constable came along to scold. He smelled the driver's sour...