Word: maughamism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...86th birthday found Author W. Somerset Maugham in Bangkok and in the middle of his leisurely "farewell tour" of the Far East. To gratify a U.S. newsman's request, the Old Party issued a handwritten statement addressed to America. It went, in part: "Thank you for all the kindness that I have received at your hands since I first came to America 50 years ago . . . I have an idea that in two or three hundred years English will be the universal language, spoken all over the world. Of course, it won't be the English we speak...
...Hook for Soloists. Born Nevil Shute Norway in the London suburb of Baling on Jan. 17, 1899, the future novelist was the second son of a postal official who turned vacations on the Continent into competent travel books. Like another famed storyteller, Somerset Maugham, the boy suffered from an agonizing stammer. Sensitive Nevil played hooky, haunting the London Science Museum with its glass-encased models of the pioneering planes of Blériot and the Wright brothers. At the end of World War I, he entered Oxford as an engineering major. Young Norway was an indifferent student but a line...