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...third consecutive year the varsity lightweight crew went in late June to Henley-on-Thames, England, and returned with the Thames Cup, and undisputed symbol of supremacy in Anglo-American rowing...
...assure France primacy in Western Europe . . . to persuade the states along the Rhine, the Alps and the Pyrenees to form a political, economic and strategic bloc; to establish this organization as one of the three world powers and, should it become necessary, as the arbiter between the Soviet and Anglo-American camps...
...Among Anglo-Saxons the passion for bullfights used to be limited largely to such professional tauromaniacs as Novelist Ernest Hemingway, Barnaby (Matador) Conrad and Drama Critic Kenneth Tynan. Next came Actress Ava Gardner, who, like many a lady before her, had trouble choosing between man and beast. But last week Spain was crawling with a new species of Anglo-American characters known, even among themselves, as bull bums. Before a bullfight, these happy eccentrics can usually be found tossing down a fino in the lobby of the leading hotel or paying respects as the matadors nervously squeeze into their tight...
Carry On, Nurse (Anglo-Amalgamated; Governor Films). "Good heavens, no!" the male patient sputters shyly to the two young nurses who propose to remove his drawers. "I'll do it myself if you don't mind.'' They do mind, and with Amazonian zest they pants the poor chap and dump him in the sack. "There now," one of them remarks, "what a fuss-about such a little thing...
...month spent in the pine cabin of an Alabama sharecropper during the summer of 1936. The book begins with 64 starkly beautiful photographs by Walker Evans, probing into the timeless peasant homes and sun-squinting faces of the Deep South, then ravaged by the Depression. Despite centuries of Anglo-Saxon inbreeding, the faces seem Latin: these same lean, starveling families could have emerged as easily from the caves of the Mezzogiorno or the baked hills of Mexico...