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Over fog-shrouded Ganton course, the aroused British gave the heavily favored Americans a jolt. In Scotch-foursome play (where partners alternate hitting the same ball), a pair of 41-year-old Englishmen nosed out the cream of U.S. golfers-Sam Snead and Lloyd Mangrum-and won, one up. At the end of the first day's play, Britain led, three matches...
...Jews as total heroes. The worldwide political snafu that preceded Israel's rebirth is boiled down to the smuggling of Jewish D.P.s through British patrols, a one-sided desert scramble that resembles a gang of dead-end kids working against one slow-thinking cop. The same Englishmen who watched Errol Flynn and Humphrey Bogart win World War II take a brass-knuckle beating in Sword's ostensibly fair-to-everybody script. When the Voice of Israel (Marta Toren) is captured, a Tommy bucks her up by remarking, "I say, what rotten luck...
Burn the Papers. Like most Englishmen, Chapman had supposed that Singapore would never fall. He was sent behind the Jap lines in Malaya to organize and train native guerrilla fighters. When Singapore was taken, he and a few other Britons were trapped. Chapman was one of a handful that survived. He came through because he was tough and knew life in the wilderness (in 1937, he had become the first man to scale the 23,930-ft. peak of Chomolhari in the Himalayas, was already a famed Arctic explorer), because he had a sense of humor, and because he kept...
...Heeding Noel Coward's famed advice: "In Bangkok at 12 o'clock...only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday...
...Englishman of the 18th and 19th Centuries, who dearly loved his comforts, one of the most highly prized boons was a coal-burning fireplace in every room. Many fireplaces meant many flues - and a nasty job cleaning them. But then, most Englishmen reflected, there were people who did that sort of thing...