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...after day the average Briton wakes up to a breakfast of tea and toast with butter or margarine from a seven-day allowance of some six ounces. Once a week he may have an egg. Twice a week, a 1½-oz. piece of bacon. Twice a week, porridge...
Winston Churchill had some tailored shirts coming to him from Manhattan, but first the shirtmaker had some missing measurements coming to him. Unaware of the demands of true haute couture, the barrelly Briton had left only his neck-size (17½) and inside sleeve-length (20 from armpit to cuff). Cabled the shirtmaker: "Please send one old shirt for use as a model." He could scarcely do a proper job, he explained, without the outside sleeve-length, chest and waist measurements...
...Priestley, solid Briton of letters, and tiny Minister of Education Ellen C. Wilkinson were separately moved to loud tuts by a Hollywood importation...
Further free benefits of the "socialized medicine" bill: 1) hospitalization; 2) dental care; 3) eye examinations and glasses; 4) operations. Not so free & easy will be the yearly burden of $608 million which will have to be absorbed by increased taxation. Estimated cost per Briton: $15 a year...
Call the Next Witness reports how Gopal Singh was brought to "justice." Philip Woodruff (the pseudonym of a Briton who has worked for many years in India) never tells his readers whether Gopal Singh actually did shoot his wife. But he gives them an exciting description of the religious, tribal, political and human intricacies that make Indian legal procedure as cryptic as the Indian rope trick. They also make Call the Next Witness one of the year's most striking and unusual novels...