Barbs from Britain

At times, the popular British press seems to look on the U.S. as a wide-screen immorality play of freaks and fools, wantonness and wealth. Some recent samples of wild-eyed British reporting on the U.S.:

-c- A Hollywood milkman, snickered the Empire News, "drives a horse-drawn cart through the streets, crying the familiar 'Milk-ho' before the homes of the famous on Sunset Boulevard."

-c- So essential to the American ego is the claim of having seen South Pacific, reported Drama Critic W.A. Darlington of the Daily Telegraph, that a flourishing black market deals in the show's old ticket stubs.

-c- "I just love those Americans," bubbled Simon Ward, the Daily Sketch's "Inside Information" columnist. "Now they're fitting a device to propellers of their planes to produce the same magic whine of Britain's turboprop engines. The theory is that if the 'jet noise' attracts even one passenger per plane, it's paid for itself."

-c- The Daily Express reported that on the "road from Boston into New York" (presumably Connecticut's Merritt Parkway) there is a sign that reads: "Last Psychiatrist Before Westchester."

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