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Anita Lucia Perella knew early on that she was different. The third of four children in one of the few Italian immigrant families in Littlehampton, Sussex (a fading Victorian beach resort her family dubbed "home of the newly wed and nearly dead"), she was treated like an alien by her classmates. "They never smelled garlic before we came," says Roddick. Her stepfather, who ran the first and only American-style diner in town, died when she was 10 -- a loss that was keener for Anita and her younger brother Bruno than they knew. Eight years later, their mother Gilda confessed...
...Back in Littlehampton, Anita's mother introduced her to another veteran of the trail -- a tall, thin 26-year-old Scotsman who had worked his way around the world (mining in Africa, canoeing in the Amazon, sheep farming in Australia) but really wanted to be a poet. To hear Anita tell it, she was concerned with more down-to-earth matters. "I wanted to have children and needed some sympathetic sperm," she says. "What I didn't anticipate was that I would fall in love with my sperm donor...
...five-week trip to the U.S., Lancaster, 50, took along his cartoon regulars, banjo-eyed Maudie and her mustached husband Willie, Earl of Littlehampton. Gasped Maudie in a supermarket: "Haven't you got anything-but anything-that's been touched by human hand?" But everywhere Lancaster went, he was impressed by the change in Americans and Americana: André Gide on drugstore newsracks instead of "a couple of Mickey Spillanes," polite cab drivers, even architecture "with a new restrained look . . . the severe but effective cliffs of steel and glass that now dominate Park Avenue." Furthermore, "voices are quieter...
...thrilled the crowds with the airborne hot-rodding that Britain encourages at Farnborough. He buzzed the spectators at flashing speed with his red. needle-nosed Hawker Hunter, slapped them with supersonic bangs, whirled in splendidly executed acrobatics. Then one sunny afternoon he flew down to the sea off Littlehampton. Sussex, to have a try at the official low-level speed record...
Fiery Tipple. The history of the family of Lord Littlehampton's friend, Poet Jeremy Tipple, is also a compact history of British literary taste. It ends on a magnificently acid note with an account of the devoted leftist, Bill Tipple, a conscientious objector in the late war until the German invasion of Russia jolted him into joining the Drayneflete section of the National Fire Service. Bill Tipple is currently organizing secretary of the World Congress of International Poets in Defense of Peace...