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Unlike the Prime Minister, I treasure the image of English men's clubs, full of dozing old gents who have names like Trevor and refer to their wives in tender moments as "old thing." I would be unhappy to see Jeeves and Bertie Wooster get on a first-name basis. I don't even want to think about the possibility that Jeeves, given the new atmosphere, may feel it necessary to confess tearfully that beneath his awesomely capable exterior he often feels himself lacking in self-esteem...
...Jeeves and Bertie Wooster did get on a first-name basis these days, Jeeves probably wouldn't call his employer Bertie, the diminutive of Bertram. That name is strictly Old Britain. He might call him Scott. According to a recent Washington Post article by Dan Balz, the Prime Minister's advisers asked a chef from Cambridge to cook for an English-French summit meeting and then asked if he could change his first name from Anton to Tony for the day, presumably because it sounds zippier...
...realize that I'm living in the past. I realize that the England of Jeeves and Bertie Wooster was a thing of the past even when P.G. Wodehouse wrote about it 75 years ago. So what? I can live in the past in someone else's country. I'm not ashamed to say that when men in London began to realize some years ago that they actually didn't have to wear heavy wool suits in August, I was critical of their willingness to cast aside standards of proper dress. After all, I hadn't been the one doing...
...WOOSTER: Gaubatz 2-5 0-0 4; Watkins 2-7 0-0 4; Hochstetler 0-4 0-0 1-4; Gorman 8-12 5-6 21; Ellenwood 5-7 1-2 11; Schlabach 0-0 0-0 0; Gardner 1-5 0-2 3; Pedon 1-2 0-0 3; Roberts 0-1 0-0 0; Sprang 1-3 2-2 4; Vance 0-0 0-0 0; Kalemba 0-0 0-0 0; Wilson 0-1 2-2 2; Maynard 2-2 0-1 4; Noles 2-3 0-0 5. TOTALS...
...BASKETBALL 77, Wooster...