Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Socialist Britain had its topsy-turvy aspect as well, and from there last week came a story of a London visitor who was inordinately impressed with the satiny polish given his shoes by a hotel boot boy. Next morning he arose especially early to catch the "boots" and congratulate him. "How did you ever learn to do it?" he asked. The boots drew himself to attention. "As a matter of fact," he replied in the clipped accents of an ex-Guards officer, "my batman taught...
...London, U.S. Ambassador Lewis Douglas contributed to good Anglo-U.S. relations by bringing a touch of horse opera into Mayfair. A startled horse, ridden by a lady on her way to Rotten Row, began to rear and plunge in front of Douglas' car. Rancher Lew (he owns some wide acres in Arizona) jumped from his car, caught the ornery critter by the bridle, led it to the safety of the bridle path. Then, in true western hero style, he shyly left the scene without even asking the name of the rescued lady...
Philosopher Bertram Russell, 76, who reluctantly renounced pacifism in 1941, reluctantly warned a London conference of students and teachers that the West must either fight Russia before she has the atom bomb, or "lie down and say 'Come and govern us, have concentration camps, do as you like.' " It would be a sad decision, he admitted, because "there are only two independent states in the world today-Britain is not one of them. After an atomic war only one would be left...
...Servile and impertinent," Lord Macaulay had called him, "shallow and pedantic, a bigot and a sot, bloated with family pride, a talebearer, an eavesdropper, a common butt in the taverns of London." That, for several generations of scholars, was the final verdict on James Boswell. The 18th Century Scotsman was regarded as little more than a toady and a drunken rogue, whose one claim to fame was his great and somehow accidental Life of Samuel Johnson. And many credited the book's virtues to the subject rather than the biographer...
...copy of the letter he wrote Rousseau asking for an interview ("J'écris mal le francais,'' he apologized), but managed to get his hands on a letter Rousseau wrote to his mistress, Mile. Levasseur (Boswell had a brief affair with her, while escorting her to London...