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...about Harry, who felt like "a trapped animal" in his Midlands town. So he came to London with about ?25, a cardboard suitcase and a haversack full of books to practice his trade of being a poet and philosopher. Almost immediately he meets his mate, a New Zealander named Doreen, and his mentor, a sometime actor named Charles Compton Street. Charles introduces him to the fine art of living without working-cadging food and drink, stealing an occasional rare book, sleeping on suburban trains or on somebody's floor. Charles also introduces him to a series of Soho oddballs...
Road run by a painter so suspicious of success that he jumps out the window and runs for it when rich art patrons come to buy his paintings. Here Harry has his moment of selfdiscovery: "For better or worse, I am a bourgeois. Doreen made some tea. Presumably, she had known it all along...
...Harlem's famed vaudeville theater in a rowdy session with Count Basic's band, a couple of tap dancers, some comedy and a glimpse of the famed amateur show that gave Ella Fitzgerald her start. The recorded show uncovers its own discovery, a bouncy blues singer named Doreen Vaughan. The audience goes wild...
...that our family inherited their wanderlust from our Manx father and not our Scots mother, who bore and weaned the six of us in Uganda. After wandering the globe, brother Ian settled in India, brother Noel in Mauritius, sister Kathleen in Iraq, sister Betty in Rhodesia and twin sister Doreen in Canada. I keep in touch with them all from this address...
...DOREEN TUXBURY Manchester...