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Norman Douglas, Aldous Huxley and many other famed Englishmen prefer living in Italy to living in England for climatic, artistic, economic, gastronomic and other reasons. John Gialdini, Anglo-Italian banker, former partner of super-swindler Clarence Charles Hatry (TIME, Oct. 21, et seq.) has one all sufficient reason for living in Italy: there is no criminal extradition treaty between Italy and Britain. Last week he was more than ever satisfied with his Italian domicile. His four former partners-pale and spectacular Clarence Hatry, stolid Albert Edward Tabor, colorless Edmund Daniels and Charles Graham Dixon-stood...
...Oxford's young intellectual lights (John Keble, E. B. Pusey, John Henry Newman) had started the Oxford Movement, which aimed to lead the Church back to its Catholic traditions. By preaching and by pamphlets (the famed "Tracts for the Times") they spread their propaganda, Newman became so extreme an Anglo-Catholic that it was not long before he went the whole way and entered the Roman Catholic Church. He took many followers with him, but some balked. Said he: "A person in Devonshire is all but made up?he sticks at St. Cyprian. . . ." Newman's reception was chilly...
...Anglo-U. S.] Christ Church congregation [at Mexico City] has its own weighty problems to solve, chiefly one that for 30 years has vexed the vestry: whether the preacher should pray first for the King or for the President of the U. S. The King has won out as a rule...
...Anglo-American Oil, once a marketing unit of Standard, now passing back to Standard of New Jersey by a proposed merger with its subsidiary, Standard Oil Exporting Corp. Anglo-American is the largest distributor in England...
...Anglo-Saxons may well ask what such words mean, if anything. They are a circumlocution worthy of a Grandee of Spain. Without compromising the Captain General, they sufficiently imply his support of the revolution, and the subsequent seemingly nonsensical allusion to a house of ill-fame may be considered a Spanish masterpiece. It is another way of saying: "I will not be taken for a lecherous old swine like Primo de Rivera." For any Spaniard would recognize the allusion to an occasion when the Chief of Police of Madrid personally conducted a raid on a celebrated bawdy house, thundered...