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Compleat Angler. Nonetheless, Gromyko trusts "Milord" Home enough to converse with him in English when they are alone, and Soviet admirers dubbed him respectfully the "Western Mo'otov." Laborites accused him of being rigidly antiCommunist, but Home was always ready to negotiate problems when he thought that there was any hope. When dealing with the Russians, said Compleat Angler Home, "I go trying for a fish. If nothing bites, I go back the next day. If a small fish bites, I go after a bigger...
...then became, at 44, the youngest bishop of his church at that time. Oxnam took the honor lightly, and with some wit. Shortly after he was elevated to the episcopacy, a friend began a conversation with "My God, Bishop . . ." "No," Oxnam interrupted, "it's Milord Bishop...
...days when the English milord traveled through remote and dangerous foreign lands with nothing but a valet, a revolver and a universally acceptable bag of sovereigns, are, alas (and partly by our own folly), long gone," sighed the British weekly, Time & Tide, last week...
...impoverished milord of today needs to be just as resourceful in dealing with the hostile natives," Time & Tide continued. "A friend of mine who has spent the past couple of years in the Middle East was annoyed at the way so many Arabs carried pictures of Colonel Nasser and kept bringing them out and kissing them. He was very grateful to TIME Magazine, he said, for publishing a cover picture of Sir Anthony Eden. Now he carries that around wherever he goes and kisses it ostentatiously in return...
...Venezuela to horse around with thoroughbreds, Prince Aly Khan was greeted at the Caracas airport by newsmen addressing him as "milord." The formality soon gave way to impertinent questions, which Aly answered with bubbling good humor. Asked one reporter: "How much did [exwife No. 2] Rita Hayworth cost you?" Chuckling, the prince cracked: "Why? Are you planning to marry her, too?" Led into expressing a preference for raven-haired Latin women, Aly was led right back into admitting that he has no personal prejudice against blondes-or redheads, for that matter, finally, a newsman popped the inevitable query: "Prince...