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From the moment he arrived in the U.S. from New Malden, Surrey two years ago, a 42-year-old Briton named William George Philpot began wondering what he could do about an American trait that bothered him. At every traffic light someone behind him honked a horn. Five weeks ago in Detroit, Philpot ordered a metal sign. He bolted it to the rear of his car and set forth. The honking stopped. Last week, as a final test, he drove through clangorous Manhattan. Even there, the sign worked. Philpot sighed with relief, and set out in his self-made zone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Quiet! | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

...hard to dodge a conclusion that the Briton who is willing and able to take more than a narrow view of his own interest must take a chance with the Tories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The British Election: The Tories | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

Anyone who has lived there, and is honest, knows that the "native" is no less human and peculiar than the average Lett, Finn, Parsee, Mongol and Persian; not to mention American, Briton or Russian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 24, 1951 | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

Norman St. John-Stevas, 22, is no ordinary Briton. He is not merely "Oxford," nor is he really "Cambridge"; by the end of the year, he will have a bachelor's degree from both. In the London Spectator last week, he turned his double vision on an ancient riddle: just what are the differences between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Oxford v. Cambridge | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

Britain, whose subsidies support Jordan's tough little Arab Legion, made a show of force by going through with the executions. But the tough Briton who runs the Legion was nervous. Glubb Pasha's house was surrounded by half a platoon of armed legionnaires; barbed wire masked the entrance to his office; squads with Tommy guns convoyed his car. For still at large were the masterminds: Abdullah el Tel, former Arab Legion colonel (sentenced to death in absentia for the Abdullah killing), and Jerusalem's Mufti, the greatest plotter of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: For Killing a King | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

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