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...Spencer is almost as baffling as he is brilliant. A crackerjack technician, he earns his living by grinding out neat, sunny scenes of the Berkshire countryside around his home town of Cookham (pop. 6,000). Collectors scrabble for them, but compared with his serious paintings Spencer's landscapes are impressive bores. His real work is illustrating the Bible, in pictures that reflect his love of complex patterns and muted color. They are strictly Cookham and often tantalizingly obscure...
Home Tombs. The seventh child of a Cookham organist, Spencer has stuck to the town all his life (except for a stretch of military service in World War I) and crammed his religious paintings with its people and places. Like his 1926 Resurrection, which now hangs in London's Tate Gallery, Spencer's new version of Judgment Day is laid in the Cookham graveyard. Its risen dead are a queerly turned lot, dressed in puppet-show clothes. They are tightly knotted into a composition that borrows something both from cubism and from the 16th Century Flemish master, Pieter...
Last week, King George's Swan Keeper Fred Turk, with four assistants, dutifully and warily rounded up six squawking swans from the Thames at Cookham, packed them off in pairs to hiss and sputter on the odoriferous Tigris at Bagdad. The London News Chronicle muttered sarcastically: "Might help, though...
...Sims were found guilty, fined ?25 for enticement, ?250 for libel and nearly ?400 for costs. Back in Old Barton, Cookham Dean, newshawks found Edith the General putting the kettle...
Kidnapping was bad enough, but in his pride Mr. Sim of Old Barton sent to Mr. Stretch of The Twigs (now Applewood) a taunting telegram accusing him of financial instability. The telegram passed through the village store where it was read by most of the gossips in Cookham Dean. Against Mr. Sim, Mr. Stretch promptly brought two suits, one for "enticement," the other for personal libel. Then for a year the case hung fire and bewildered Edith the General continued to work for the Sims...