European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes to relay november 24,1988 columns going to London take Money Brandy Rooney never thought i d have a daughter who lived and worked in London but hat s what Ellen is doing saturday was her birthday. We Felt a Little Tad hav ing her away from us we decided to go see  every american who travel to London loves it and i m no exception. It s one of the great cities on Earth. Cheap however it is not and one further More general comment consid ering How much Effort every City. State and country id the world puts into attracting tourists it s disgraceful How those places try to take advantage of  s out to get the tourist. Tourist look dumb to the natives lie cause tourists Are  unfamiliar with customs language and Law they act Lite foggy bumpkins. They re easy  people of London Are exceptionally kind and pal enl with americans but if you shop where tourist shop you pay the Price for your ignorance. With the possible a Cep Lions of Westminster Abbey and the Tower of London nothing attracts More american tourists than the great stores like  prices in harrods make Saks fifth Avenue prices look Tike those in a factory outlet  everything costs hire in London than id Dallas los Angeles Chicago or new York. I needed Raincoat and went to the aquas Culum store on Regent Street with the intention of buying one of its Good Trench coals. The one i a sled its Standard Model was priced at 2ss pounds about $380. The Sam coat costs $300 ill new York. Why would i travel nil the Way to London 10 pay $80 More of course 1 rant going to buy it in new York either. For that much Money full Wail until it stops  establishments in London like elsewhere get every Buck they think tourists will stand for. Last1 year at company expense i stayed Al the Hyde Park hotel. 1 asked for its rate list week and a room would have con me about $204 a night. We went elsewhere. There Are two Price Kales in London one for Resi dents the other for tourism. Even though residents pay less for everything i Don t know How they afford the prices on what they earn. Wages Are substantially lower than they Are in the United states. Ellen lived in a  Coop apartment in new York twice the size of the one she now occupies in London. She sublet her bigger new York apartment for a year and it brings in Only three quarters of what she now has to pay for rent in  went into supermarket near her place in Nottinghill Gate and i compared some prices with Price sin new York. A whole Chicken was j1.3s a Pound. A 12-ounce Jar of planter s Peanut butter was almost s3in London. At Home it would be $1.49. Four a Bat teries that were $1.79 at Home Cost the equivalent of$3.30 in London. Coke was a lot More eggs and milk about the same. Some things Art hard to compar because the English use Grams drams and liners in Stead of ounces pounds and quarts. A 16-Ounoe Jar of Hellmann s Mayonnaise is j1.3s in a store near my office and the equivalent in London costs $ 1.90. The duty free Airport shops Are in the get the tourist business they be become a joke. Almost every item in the supposedly bargain duty free stores costs More than it would at Home. Sony radios and to sets Are 10 percent higher. You May be Able to save 87 cents on bottle of scotch but do you really want to tug a bottle of scotch Home to save 87 cents if you Ever go to London for your daughter s birth Day take Money to the party. Numbers cases and Dull stuff by James j. Kilpatrick nol Long ago humorist Andy Rooney was writing about Ellis Island and immigration. No one comes in by boat he said unless they re running drugs. A about the same Lime humorist Erma Bombeck was writing about showing visitors around. Everyone is proud of their state she said. The time May have arrived for our semiannual Dis Coune on numbers cases and All that Dull stuff. With no intention of offending feminists let me insist that no one and everyone m these constructions Are singular pronouns. They demand singular referents and unless we Are to Retreat to the Clumsy bulwark of he or she or his or her we Are oblige Dlo use the masculine term no one comes in by boat unless he s running drugs. Everyone is proud of Biss Lale. This is just the Way the English language works. The same strictures apply to anyone and to other indefinite pronouns. Or. Lawrence Lamb couched Good advice in bad grammar anyone with a questionable cholesterol value should have their Bdl Choles Terol  in another column Bombeck was writing about fashions and belly buttons anyone Over the age of 6 months should never Bare their a  How Many navels Are we talking about i have yet to meet anyone with More than one. The Fredericksburg a free Lance Star review ing a local theater production said the actors earned the ovation they received. The audience had been de lighted from Start to finish the paper reported even fit had willingly left their minds at Home a bin it entered the  How Many minds Southern living Magazine reported on museum in Jurham n.c., devoted to quilts if a person inherits or buys a Quill they can go to the museum and Ridout something about the Quill s  Federal judge David kenyan imposed a severe sentence on a spy a person who deliberately for their own gain betrays their country should not walk again in this country As a free  same Rule applies. We can usually avoid sexist offence and preserve tidy sentence by escaping to a plural construction persons with questionable cholesterol values. Per sons who buy or inherit. Persons who betray. Each is another troublemaker. Marietta school gives each child their Chance to Shine read a headline m a paper called the Westside neighbor printed know not where. The pitfall could have been avoided with every child a Chance to Shine in Lafayette. La., a tougher problem failed of Reso Lution. A High school principal male and an English teacher female fell into disagreement about the Stu Dent newspaper. Each has enlisted students on their Side the Lafayette advertiser noted. That s wrong but How can we make it right each Bis enlisted student support is one Quick Way out objective and nominative pronouns Are widely con fused. 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