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...Greenwich, England, Noel Coward was fined ?1 for driving his white Jaguar 40 m.p.h. in a 30-mi. zone. The celebrated wit's unwitty line: "My speedometer wasn't working...
...yielding soil of the fortune made from the sales of Britain's best-known laxative that the extraordinary personality of Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor, impresario and wit, has flowered and flourished. Although his access to the proceeds of that fortune has been progressively limited, it has been an important factor in the development, not only of his truly remarkable musical gifts, but also of all the extravagance, exuberance and effervescence of a rich and sensitive but irrepressible and boisterous nature. He is utterly free from cant and convention, and his fortunate combination of natural and material endowments has enabled...
This biting and vigorous wit is not reserved for public occasions. Indeed, all his personal and artistic quiddities are backed by a natural robustness of temperament which smacks of his native Lancashire, still strongly accented in his speech. With a roving eye, an eloquent eyebrow and the general air of a grand poseur in the Edwardian manner, he is a brilliant and exhilarating after-dinner speaker. ("Winston and I are the two best speakers in England!") On his 70th birthday, he announced that all his exhibitionisms to date were merely "the overture" to what he intended to be "a deadly...
Britain's Sir Alan Patrick Herbert, quixotic wit and author, does not believe that all marriages are made in heaven. In his novel Holy Deadlock, he charged full tilt into Britain's archaic divorce laws; after he got into Parliament, he pushed through the Matrimonial Causes Act in 1937, the first piece of divorce-reform legislation in 81 years. In the fight over that bill, some of Herbert's most strenuous opposition came from a conservative faction in the Church of England. Last week they were at it again, this time on the issue of Anthony Eden...
...explained. Jane Clemens was a woman tender as she was brave-the kind who "always warmed the water before drowning the kittens." She was also, as Sam said seriously, a "beautiful spirit'' with a "great heart" and an "enchanted tongue." From her he drew the mother wit and nerve that carried him to success...