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Jimmy wears glasses now ('"for readin' da racin' form'") and his hair, despite violent applications of every tonic known to barbers, has thinned ("I'm known as the surrey with the fringe on top"). But his Gargantuan energy is unabated. Suite No. 472 is never locked. Friends swarm through the place...
...other way when a British label turns up; 2) a tall, dark, retiring Briton named Joseph Arthur Rank. Tycoon Rank is 55, well preserved, and lives as simple a life as any man can with a 48,000-acre estate-Sutton Manor, in Hampshire-and another home in Surrey...
...Shaw got necrosis of the bone, grunted about on crutches. Charlotte had a house in Surrey, proposed taking him there. Shaw's mother raised no objection; he was shocked. They argued until Shaw, timing it expertly, cried: "Go out and get a ring and license." Within a week they were married...
...general atmosphere is a good deal better. And there is warm romantic melody in such songs as Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' and People Will Say, gay lilt in The Surrey with the Fringe on Top, humor in Pore Jud and I Cain't Say No, a roof-buster of an anthem in Oklahoma! If, compared to Lorenz Hart's at their best, Oscar Hammerstein's lyrics lack polish, so after all did frontier Oklahoma...
...rolling wooded farm in Surrey lion-headed, frost-maned David Lloyd George read the telegrams that kept coming in, listened to the honors done him over the radio, found he had achieved the age of 80. To the press he explained his age: "I can't help it. It is really nothing," but the teeth-rattling quality of his career belied him. In 100 years only four other men who had suffered the slings & arrows of a Prime Minister's existence had ever reached such an age.* At 80, Lloyd George, Prime Minister through two years...