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...village was Glanrafon, in Flintshire, the smallest county in Wales, where lived George Emlyn's parents, Richard and Mary. He was a stoker when they married, she a lady's maid in Liverpool. He failed his way through a variety of tiny enterprises, including-for nine of Emlyn's formative years-the operation of a country pub. Dad was at home on either side of a bar, beery, convivial and feckless. Mam was "conventional to the point of defeatism, shy of strangers and painfully conscious of the immorality of spending one penny unless there was a halfpenny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Curtain Going Up | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

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