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Word: biffen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1964-1964
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...blighters, muscular viragoes and fluffy-minded bachelors that he first celebrated 67 books ago. In his 68th, he demonstrates that he has lost little of his zany zest for a world that once put Essayist John W. Aldridge in mind of "an incubator of oafdom." The oafs in Biffen's Millions are all after an obscure-ly willed fortune. What happens to them in the absurdly complicated plot is enough to drive confirmed Wodehousians happily crackers and Pelham Grenville to his 69th book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Also Current: Aug. 7, 1964 | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

...BIFFEN'S MILLIONS by P. G. Wodehouse. 222 pages. Simon & Schuster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Also Current: Aug. 7, 1964 | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

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