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Blood and guts are the main ingredients of the grand sport. But rugger is still a gentleman's sport. After getting your wind knocked out or after a particularly jarring tackle, one bears (I am told), "Terribly sorry old chap!" or "Pardon me, laddie!" Whether international or local in origin, this custom sets the tone for rugby in New England
...abroad. And now at last the varlet pimpernel can be seen on the screen. He looks pretty good. As portrayed by Scotland's Sean Connery, he moves with a tensile grace that excitingly suggests the violence that is bottled in Bond. But somehow the poor chap almost always manages to seem slightly silly-he can hardly help it in a story like this...
...expert on thermonuclear power and a jolly nice chap, Martelli came to the attention of a British physicist, through him won a place on the 600-man team working on long-term fusion research at Culham Laboratory in the Cotswolds. There, in Room 103, Giuseppe spent his days in pure research, the kind of science that is not expected to yield concrete results until the 1980s; like all Euratom projects, it involved no classified information. After a few weeks in England, Giuseppe set up house among a group of scientists in nearby Abingdon...
...tradition choice since he did not go to Eton or even teach there. But Oxonian Chenevix-Trench, a Berkshire headmaster who lists his recreations as "shooting and general outdoor activities," thinks right about the rites of Eton. He plans no changes: "It is a wise chap who waits and sees." He is for "fagging," the custom that makes new boys the servants of older boys. As for another old custom, the right of head boys to beat others, he says: "If I were going to a school that didn't have it, I wouldn't start...
...After all, this is just a sappy little parody of a horror picture cutely calculated to make the children scream with terror while their parents scream with glee. The raven, see, isn't really a raven at all. It's Peter Lorre. The poor chap has been enchanted by Boris Karloff, a wicked wizard who lives in a slimy green castle-that one over there on the left side of the screen. The one on the right side of the screen belongs to Hero Price, a good wizard who takes pity on Lorre, and with the help...