Word: gwyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North Gate, by Gwyn Griffin. A taut little novel that shows Britons at an outlying African desert post trying to stand up under the white man's burden...
...North Gate, by Gwyn Griffin. A taut little novel that shows Britons at an outlying African desert post trying unsuccessfully to stand up under the white man's burden...
...NORTH GATE (255 pp.)-Gwyn Griffin-Holt...
Some think of others. Said Queen Marie Antoinette, after she stepped by accident on her executioner's foot: "Monsieur, I beg your pardon." "Let not poor Nelly starve," said Charles II of his mistress, Nell Gwyn. And George M. Cohan's last words were of his wife: "Look after Agnes." But few have left behind them last words as filled with dignity and grace as those of an Indian chief named Crowfoot, leader of the Blackfoot Confederacy: "A little while and I will be gone from among you, whither I cannot tell. From nowhere we come, into nowhere...
During her recovery, Carolyn received hundreds of letters and get-well cards from sympathetic Americans. Among them was a card and a handkerchief from Gwyn Glenn Daniel, 21, an Ardmore, Okla. service-station operator who had read about Carolyn in the papers. Soon they were corresponding regularly, exchanging gifts and photographs. Last spring they met face to face. Said Carolyn: "I had a feeling he would send a ring. I knew I was in love with him." Sure enough, Gwyn sent the ring. Last week after a ceremony in a country church near Charlotte they set off on a honeymoon...