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...these words, the Imamate of the Ismailis passed over the heads of the Aga's playboy son Aly and his younger brother Sadruddin and landed on the shoulders of a sobersided young Harvard-man named Karim Khan, Prince Aly's eldest son by his first wife (an Englishwoman previously married to one of the wealthy brewery baron Guinesses...
Thirty-three years ago a young Englishwoman asked to do graduate study in astronomy at Harvard. The Chairman of the Physics Department, of which astronomy was then a sub-division, was reluctant to admit her, saying he didn't want any women in his department. "But after all," the now middle-aged mother of three explains, "I had come all the way from England and they couldn't just send me home...
...life is not to get bored to death, so they wander feebly to Spain and France, their pockets full of Merz money, their lives empty of solid interests. When Melanie dies (of tubercular tedium), Julius leaves their daughter to be raised by the kindly Merzes, and marries an Englishwoman who is kind to his pets. The stalemated wanderings begin again: soon the cosmopolitan millpond is covered with the crisscrossing tracks of society's idle, discontented water beetles. The never-changing House of Merz is the center and paymaster, and so long as it stands, all Europe plays upon...
Guilt & Innocence. Among the thousands of refugees from the Soviet terror was a 68-year-old Englishwoman whom rebels had released from seven years' solitary confinement in a 4 ft. 6 in. wide, fungus-ridden AVH cell. Said onetime lecturer and translator Dr. Edith Bone: "I was a 'secret prisoner.' No one in the world knew about me except the secret police. There are many thousands, perhaps millions, living, rotting like that in Iron Curtain countries." Explained Dr. Bone: "I was innocent [of the charge of being a British spy] but I was also guilty...
...Holy Grail-which Sir Lancelot glimpsed for one transcendent instant, which the pure knight, Sir Galahad, and simple Sir Percival sought and found-may now be reposing in the strong room of Lloyd's Bank in Aberystwyth, Wales. It will soon be turned over to a vivacious blonde Englishwoman named Mrs. James Mirylees...