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University: "The Young Rajah...
...life!''), has hooded eyes, a wolfish gait, greying hair and a small paunch. Constantly engaged in a verbal scrimmage with his dowdy wife, he eats bananas all day long, wears dirty golf clothes and is a sponger by habit. Mr. Baxley is known as "The Rajah" to his brother-in-law, Mr. Radfern (Edmund Gwenn). John Bull himself, Radfern has a face like the man in the moon, a way of smacking his lips over ham and cheese, an air of honest living. An established householder in Laburnum Grove, Shooters Green, a North London suburb, George Radfern seems...
Stewing in his little patch of plain and jungle in the Mahanadi delta on the Bay of Bengal, the feudal Rajah of Athgarh is freer of the British Crown than most of his great brother princes. His people are primitive Dravidians, his realm is small, he pays no tribute and is left pretty much to himself by the British Raj. Dearer to him than his elaborate pedigree, as imaginative as it is long, is his pack of 80 police dogs. Trained to hunt man, the pack has proved a failure at hunting India's leopards and black bucks...
...night last week the Rajah's cousin stepped out across the Rajah's steaming acres. A snarling sounded nearby. Down a corridor of trees the cousin looked into the slavering jaws of 80 police dogs, charging out of the night. He began to run. In the morning trembling servants of the Rajah of Athgarh brought him several chewed tatters of his cousin...
...After Rajah Brooke left H. M. S. Kent the admirals relaxed by attending a tea for the children of Singapore Sahibs at Government House, then resumed their huddle. Broadly they discussed the naval situation created in Pacific waters by the fact that the U. S. and Japan are adding to their fleets even faster than is Great Britain, with a major "naval face" in prospect when the London Naval Treaty expires next year...