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...fair-haired Englishman, Steve Cram, 24, was running the world off its feet with three world records in 20 days. That orange dervish Boris Becker, 17, confirmed his Wimbledon tennis championship in West Germany's first Davis Cup victory over the U.S. (the best American, John McEnroe, avoided Hamburg). But of all the sunny events piled up against the bleakness of arbitration clauses and pension proposals, the singular one was actually contested in a rainstorm at the Butler National Golf Club near Chicago, ultimately for no money at all. Scott Verplank, 21, a student at Oklahoma State, became the first...
...office, in an unpretentious navy-blue suit, with tortoise shell glasses perched on the end of his nose. He spoke carefully and delicately, with an accent that reflected his own complex identity—Appiah would draw out the “ir” in circle as an Englishman, but would pronounce the “er” in “mother” in the American...
...office, in an unpretentious navy-blue suit, with tortoise shell glasses perched on the end of his nose. He spoke carefully and delicately, with an accent that reflected his own complex identity—Appiah would draw out the “ir” in circle as an Englishman, but would pronounce the “er” in “mother” in the American...
...last week Englishmen still thought it good enough to be retold in the Jubilee Number of their Illustrated London News. "You Americans," continued the King to Mr. Page, "have a queer use of the word 'some' to express mere bigness or emphasis. Well, an American and an Englishman were riding in the same railway compartment. The American read his paper diligently- all the details of a big battle. When he got done he put the paper down and said: 'Some fight!' 'And some don't!' said the Englishman. Ha, ha, Mr. Ambassador...
...every Englishman knows, the King, though right royally fond of whiskey & soda, touched no alcohol in any form from 1915 until Armistice Day. Queen Mary, rationing everything in Buckingham Palace, herself made sure every night that the servants were not wasting electricity but had turned out every light. As one of the King Emperor's principal aides-de-camp afterward said privately: "The War aged him for he was subjected to a peculiar, unremitting strain. He knew that every day everyone he encountered expected to leave the presence of the King with a higher heart and more determined...