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Rollicking Round. In 1938 the Holidays-with-Pay Act assured Britain's working men & women at least a week's paid vacation a year. It remained for William Edmund ("Billy") Butlin, a bustling, 48-year-old onetime carnival barker, to teach them how to use the new leisure. "I just think about what I'd like for a holiday," says South Africa-born Billy, "and then I give it to 'em." For the aspidistras of the traditional boarding house Billy has substituted neon lights and glass brick; for shoddy, scabrous hotels, rows of neat, bright cottages...
Harvard Club of Syracuse: E. Tefft Barker '37, Hiscock, Cowie, Bruce, Lee & Mawhinney, Syracuse...
Johnny Weissmuller, 43, was through playing Tarzan after 16 years; he couldn't get together with his studio on contract terms. The new Tarzan: Lex Barker, an old Exeter boy who used to be aide to General Mark Clark in Italy. Weissmuller's new meal ticket: impersonating a screen character called "Jungle...
British Critics V. S. Pritchett and C. Day Lewis made no mistake when they gave Miss Barker the Maugham Award. Nor did the London Daily Mail's Peter Quennell, when he praised her for writing of people "she seems to know and feel for -from the soles of their erring feet to the crowns of their shining heads...
...China's Mai Mai Sze (pronounced roughly may may she), daughter of a former Chinese Ambassador to Washington. It cannot claim to rank with Innocents. But its strength lies in its dramatic presentation of an appalling contemporary problem-the "dispossessed children" of World War II. While Author Barker's juveniles lose their innocence in relatively peaceful country areas of wartime England, Author Sze's homeless ragamuffins live in a camp on the mud flats of an Eastern river, and make sorties into a nearby city for the food which barely keeps them alive...