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Bull by the Horns. In Sarnia, Ont., Ethel Trott sued Elmer Mott for breach of promise, complained that he had been putting it off ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 4, 1943 | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

...much else that happens to Ernie Mott, the bewildered, pimply-faced scrap of slum life whose emotions, frustrations and stumblings are narrated in a stream of his day dreams, illusions and misconceptions, expressed in a rapid-fire, highly cockney argot many U.S. readers may find hard to understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cockney Dubliner | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

...Type and High Jinks. Novelist Llewellyn apparently intended to do for London Cockney Mott what James Joyce did for Dubliner Bloom in Ulysses. Then he changed his mind, reverted to melo dramatic people and situations, but kept the stream-of-consciousness style and some phraseological high jinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cockney Dubliner | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

...past ten years she has been training horses on her own. Washingtonian T. T. Mott, whose string she now handles, refuses to buy a racer without her O.K. Last summer Horse Owner James V. Stewart urged Mr. Mott to buy a hand some young jumper. Judy demanded a trial run around the local Laurel course. She mounted, skimmed around the course until the last fence, where the horse crashed to the turf, head first. When an ambulance reached her, Judy was uncon scious. Coming to, she muttered: "Mr. Stewart, we don't want to buy your horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jumping Judy | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

Final--Won by Shand (Princeton); second, Eastburn (Amherst); third, Mott (Navy); fourth, Merrow (Bowdoin). Time...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Rutgers and Princeton Dominate Eastern Swimming Tournament | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

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