Word: bodley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most of them white, were hard and gutter-wise: girls who jiggled provocatively in too-tight sweaters, boys who slouched about in stovepipe jeans. Braithwaite's story of eventual victory over their ignorance-and their casually vicious race bigotry-is warmly told in To Sir, with Love (The Bodley Head; 13s. 6d.). By last week his publishers had printed 10,000 copies, and ex-Teacher Braithwaite (he is now a children's officer for the London social welfare department) was a.moderate literary sensation...
...WARRIOR SAINT (302 pp.)-R.V. C. Bodley-Little, Brown...
...French Morocco in 1916, and is now being considered for beatification by the Roman Catholic Church. The conversion of the worldly sybarite into the selfless man of God makes a dramatic biography out of an indifferently written book, The Warrior Saint, by R. V. C. (for Ronald Victor Courtenay) Bodley...