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Reverse Flow. Because British business has borrowed so many sales techniques from the U.S., most Britons take it for granted that TV rentals are also widespread in this country. "You mean you don't have it in America?" said one astonished Englishwoman. "I assumed we'd got it from you." In fact, out of 56 million U.S. TV sets, scarcely 500,000 are rented, and these are mostly in hotels and motels. But the idea is budding: Hertz started renting home sets in New York last December, reports triple the volume that it originally anticipated...
...doughty little Englishwoman known as Bryher-in 1920 she changed her name from Winifred Ellerman-lives in Switzerland, where she has written a series of brisk, gnomic historical novels (Roman Wall, Ruari). Bryher seems to have had a full life of missed opportunities. She is the daughter and sister of millionaires...
...reluctant to talk about his youth. "I have no past, have no journals or diaries. When I die, I want to leave nothing behind." Son of a lawyer, he was sent at the age of 15 to the theosophical institute in Madras run by Mrs. Annie Besant, the eccentric Englishwoman who was an early agitator for Indian home rule, a prominent member of the theosophy movement** and in 1917 president of the Congress Party. Theosophy did not appeal to young Menon. Says he: "This world has too many problems to think of the other world...
...novel gets much of its quality from the convoluted Jamesian style, which is hardly suited to song. Still, Composer Moore ( The Devil and Daniel Webster, The Ballad of Baby Doe) was fascinated by the story of a young Englishwoman who urges her penniless lover to start a flirtation with an ailing American heiress, hoping that the heiress, who is compared in the story to a dove, will soon die and leave him rich and free. In stripping the story to the operatic bone, Moore and Librettist Ethan Aver changed the name of the scheming suitor from Merton Densher to Miles...
...Taste of Honey. An episodic but unblinkingly truthful first play about a tramp of a mother and her illegitimate daughter, by a talented young Englishwoman who has the knack of using light to make soot more visible...