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...affectionate perspective of David Jasen's biography, revised for the author's centennial, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse emerges as one of the century's greatest entertainment industries. Beginning with The Pothunters in 1902, he wrote over 70 novels, more than 300 short stories, 18 plays, plus the lyrics or books of 33 musicals with such partners as Jerome Kern and George Gershwin...
Wodehouse's childhood was a model of bland British neglect- parents absent ed in Hong Kong where father served as a magistrate while young Pelham was stashed in schools back in England. When it came time for Oxford, there was no money. The aspiring author had to clerk in a bank. When he was quarantined with mumps, the stay-at-home knocked out 19 stories in three weeks: he had taken refuge in comic art. It was to be his true home from then...
Similarly, eight residents of Pelham, N.Y., had no way of suing even for medical expenses after they were bitten by a German shepherd owned by Barbados' Ambassador to the U.N., W.E. Waldron-Ramsey. When the village police chief threatened in 1975 to shoot the dog, Waldron-Ramsey warned against "possible international consequences...
...plans, and he serves as a willing catalyst. Without the help of EXCEL, a teacher at all-black Marshall High School started an interschool academic Olympics on a small basis a year ago. This spring, 20,000 students from eight high schools competed. In Detroit, ten students at Pelham Junior High, once considered a problem school, went to Louisville to win a national math olympiad. Among the reasons for their victory: individualized student instruction and parental supervision...
...plausible, if only barely; the right combination of pumps and levers probably could raise the Unknown Soldier's coffin, and in any case, part of the fun with the book is in finding out how it is done. That was the case with Godey's earlier The Taking of Pelham One Two Three--how in the world, the reader wants to know, could a group of men kidnap a subway car in New York...