Word: nottingham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nottingham tanner, 31-year-old Author Sillitoe left school at 14 to work in factories, turned to writing during the war while serving as an R.A.F. radio operator in Malaya. Far from being one of Britain's heavily intellectual Angry Young Men, Sillitoe is extremely matter of fact in his recital of the war between the two nations. The blokes he writes about may have been "put inside" for anything from arson to stealing cars, from burglary to grabbing passing women and "trying to give them what...
...Merry Men. In London, TV Star Alan Wheatley, who plays the villainous sheriff of Nottingham on the Robin Hood show, complained: "Children climb trees around my house and fire arrows at me as I walk in the garden...