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...ocarina's Latin name is usually said to be derived from the Italian word oca (goose), but some authorities trace it to the Italian occare, meaning to harrow. The ancient Chinese, Aztecs and Incas all played a similar instrument. Its introduction to Western civilization dates from the late 19th Century, when an Italian named Donati made a turnip-shaped flute of baked clay with eight finger holes. He subsequently killed himself by falling off a balcony. Perfected by a German wagon maker named Heinrich Fiehn, Donati's invention became the rage of Vienna...
...Polish magazine commissioned Topolski to draw the ceremonies of King George V's Silver Jubilee. Topolski was so fascinated by such English institutions as pubs, the Derby and the Eton & Harrow cricket match that he stayed on, published a book of satirical drawings appreciatively lampooning Britain's pomps and humors. With the enthusiastic support of famed British Painter Augustus Edwin John, London's ultra-conservative Victoria & Albert Museum purchased three Topolski drawings. Only one member of the Museum's committee objected-on the ground that they were the work of a too young foreigner. The committeeman...
...Oval, one of London's two great cricket grounds, is no longer used for cricketing; but Lords, where the Oxford-Cambridge, Eton-Harrow matches were always played, is planning to open its season on May 2 with plenty of service matches and a few between schools...
...went back to London, where by the age of seven he had built up an army of nearly 1 ,000 toy soldiers. He went to Harrow, where he once by mistake pushed a star athlete into the swimming pool, displayed typical Churchill tact in his apology. "I am very sorry," he said, "I mistook you for a Fourth Form boy. You are so small. My father, who is a great man, is also small...
...with one of the best wholesale houses in the city-Chevalier & Deming Post. Young Ames has freckles and unruly hair through which in moments of stress he rakes his rural fingers. He is wearing the same brown country-tweed jacket (an Edmonds property) that Dan'l Harrow wore in Rome Haul. He also has indefatigable industry, a bounding business precocity, and a talent, rather uncommon in country boys of 18, for slipping bribes where they will do the most good. "Do you remember my saying you were an unscrupulous rascal. Ames?" says realistic Mr. Chevalier, accepting the letter which...