Word: bexley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parents had had their way-and in 19th century England, parents usually did-Leonard Woods Newman would have been a London tobacco broker. Apprenticed at 18, he began his career dutifully enough. Then, one warm June morning as he pedaled his bicycle to the Bexley railroad station, he fell in love-with a swarm of Clouded Yellow butterflies...
Precocious Skill. Although he had had to defy his own parents on a choice of career, Newman had no trouble with his own son, Leonard Hugh. Born on the Bexley butterfly farm, the boy grew up in a fluttering world that was timed to the persistent rhythm of mating, egg laying, caterpillar collecting, pupation and maturing butterflies. Before he was eight, he was showing precocious skill at spotting rare specimens. "There had never been any question of an alternative career for me," acknowledges Leonard Hugh in a book, Butterfly Farmer, just published in England (Phoenix House...
...able to earn his living in a fascinating branch of science that makes a study of rare and beautiful creatures. He has also enjoyed the society of Britain's leading lepidopterists. Before he died, Lord Walter Rothschild was a steady customer; today, Sir Winston Churchill depends on the Bexley farm to supply him with butterflies for his garden parties. (The Newmans once supplied Tortoiseshells and Peacocks on short notice, at other times have stocked the Chartwell grounds with the larvae of Painted Ladies.) Biggest satisfaction of all: Hugh's five-year-old son is already mastering the fine...
...week to Princeton, NJ. Lights flickered off in dormitory windows, and students poured outdoors into the practice blackout. Tentatively, someone touched off a few firecrackers. "We want Joe Sugar!" chanted a few campus politicians as they tried to turn the excitement into a rally for Joseph A. Sugar of Bexley, Ohio, Ivy Club member and candidate for president of the senior class...