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...fate of England. The word island recurs: England shorn of empire, reduced to her physical boundaries, but with names and deeds of the past intoned like a faint requiem of glory-Newton, and Sir Walter Raleigh and the discovery of penicillin. The sceptered isle has become a gleamless cinder on the tides of history...
...show manager, he was carted young all over the country: "I went to a hundred schools, and I never got out of the fifth grade." When still a boy, he went with his father to Alaska, where they "expected to pick up gold in a pail." After a few gleamless months, the father rushed home to a dying child and left Sid with $250, which he promptly lost in a crap game. He picked up the concession for selling newspapers from the States - buying them for 18?, selling them for a dollar. He sold the first paper...
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