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...Marcel Boussac, French textile tycoon, the one-mile-Houghton Stakes at Newmarket, with his two-year-old colt Auriban, thus becoming the leading money-winner in Britain ($103,716) for the second year...
...read with no little amusement the fuss stirred up in Newmarket (England) by Mrs. Stocker [TIME, Sept. 3]. Mrs. Stocker is still young-by all standards. You Americans are sometimes perturbed by the growing "anti-Americanism" now to be seen throughout the world . . . What is the cause of all this? It's all so very simple...
Joan Stocker, 18, was fed up. She and her husband, a U.S. Air Force sergeant, had been living in England for several months and boarding with English families. One day, from Newmarket in Suffolk, she sent a sizzling letter to her hometown paper, the Palo Alto (Calif.) Times. "We are writing," she said, "to let you people back home know just what is going on in the minds of the English . . . They believe [Americans] all have big houses, strings of cars, closets full of clothes and more money than we know what to do with. They charge us all fabulous...
...Englishman living in California sent a clipping of the letter to the Newmarket Journal, which printed it without comment last week. Newmarket (pop. 9,767) exploded. "Damned cheek!" snorted outraged townsfolk in bus queues and pubs. Growled George Goult, chairman of the urban district council: "I and the rest of the town take a very poor view of it... We shall refute it officially." London tabloids stirred up a fuss...
...Anglo-American garden party they talked hands across the sea and dismissed Joan Stocker as an impulsive youngster. At week's end, under their prodding eye, she issued a formal statement: "I would like to emphasize very strongly that I was not referring to the town of Newmarket . . . Our rent is just . . . The neighbors . . . have all been swell ... I am proud to live in Newmarket." Newmarket calmed down a bit again...