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Fighting Trim. In Nottingham, England, Scottish Flyweight Champion Vic Herman found himself an ounce too heavy before he defended his title, reduced immediately by taking out his dental plate and its single tooth...
...sound reason and a noble spirit, and ruled benevolently over an unprepossessing tribe of humans called yahoos. A British stable owner named Frank Coton felt he had a near-Houyhnhnm in his eight-year-old gelding, Black Diamond. One day last week, he led Black Diamond clopping into a Nottingham movie theater (which had been cleared of yahoos); the horse, perspiring heavily, watched as a newsreel of 1952's Grand National Steeplechase was run off twice...
...theory: "If humans can be educated by watching films, can't horses too? I think so. Who knows? He might feel like imitating Teal [this year's Grand National winner] after he's seen it." But Black Diamond was not Houyhnhnmly enough. In South Nottingham's Point-to-Point Steeplechase on Easter Monday, Black Diamond placed fifth...
...never got there. Next he tried tutoring a small boy, but that lasted only a few weeks: "I don't particularly like small boys, and I had forgotten all my Latin." So then he proposed to Vivien, and she accepted him. Then he got a job with the Nottingham Journal, without pay, "just for the experience." But his prospective marriage confronted Greene with a deeper problem than the one of making a living. During the winter of 1926, he became a Roman Catholic...
...Pity Is the Worst." The first novel about Graham Greene might end there. Then he turned into a writer. In 1926, full of his Nottingham knowledge of journalism, he got a job as subeditor in the letters department of the London Times. On the side, he wrote two bad novels, which publishers encouragingly rejected. In 1929, Heinemann accepted The Man Within. It was reviewed by St. John Ervine as a "remarkable first novel" by a writer who "obliges us to believe in his people, even when his people seem determined we shall not believe in them...