18 MAY 1951, Page 4

• Mr. Kenneth Gape, of Akron, Ohio, who can succeed

to a legacy of £40,000 if he will come and live in England, has turned down the proposition with a bang, explaining that " I don't want to be an English gentleman with nothing to do all day but sit and eat crumpets." I can understand the distaste for the diet, but there are other full-time diversions not unbefitting an English gentleman—cross-word puzzles, for example, or, if so minded, football pools. British Information Services in the U.S.A. have fallen clown pretty badly on their job if they have not convinced Mr. Gape and his like that the fine old English gentleman (such as Mr. Gape is certainly qualified to become) is not essentially and invariably crumpetophage.

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