Word: coppard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. A. E. (for Alfred Edgar) Coppard, 79, who gave up clerking at 41 to concentrate on writing, became known as the author of vivid, atmospheric short stories (The Higgler, Adam and Eve .and Pinch Me); of a stroke; in London. Novelist Ford Madox Ford's evaluation: "Almost the first English prose writer to get into English prose the peculiar quality of English lyric poetry...
...place but cannot keep it. There is a murder, and the young man will hang if the lady doesn't reveal that they spent the night in question together. Will she tell? Won't she? Since the story was by Britain's sardonic A. E. Coppard, the lady confesses, but the young man hangs anyway. Studio One, presenting The Deserter, had a fine opening scene where a bitter soldier is released after serving seven years for desertion under fire. But from there on, the play's course was rapidly downhill...