Word: blackheath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Dawkins was promoted to Oxford's first team to play against Blackheath, one of Britain's top teams. Treating Blackheath as though it were Navy, Dawkins crashed home on two tries in Oxford's 36-0 victory. Hoisting a friendly pint of stout with his opponents after the game ("Something we unfortunately don't have in American football"), Dawkins had no illusions that he had yet nailed down a berth on the Oxford team that will play Cambridge. Said he modestly: "I am just getting past the stage where I'm getting used...
...house he got rent-free from his in-laws. Recently elected an associate of the august Royal Academy, and sporting a new beard, Bratby has come up in the world. Hit, new background is his own rambling, Victorian house, with cracked swimming pool, in London's Blackheath district. But the exuberant pictures of the disorderly, newspaper-strewn interiors and the sunflower-choked garden (often with the face of a Bratby child peering through the stalks) show that Bratby is still a glutton for life...