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British Funnyman Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, a "nonpolitical" radio voice from Berlin (TIME, May 25, 1942), was asked by the U.S. to pay $21,328 in back taxes, plus penalties and interest...
Stockholm "informed sources" (often mouthpieces for the Nazis) let it be known that British Funnyman Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, long in comfortable durance vile in Germany, had asked Sweden for a residence permit...
...boys' school in 1890. At that time when a boy was sent away to school people usually asked, "What's the matter with him?" Taft first thought of Kansas City, but it seemed too frontierlike. He began his school-"small and in some ways comical"-at Pelham Manor (near New York City) with seven day pupils and ten boarders, whom he woke each morning by pulling off their blankets...
...atmosphere in the Drones' Club was thickly postprandial, a pleasant miasma of tobacco smoke, port, fizz water splashing into amber whiskey, just as Old Plum-Pelham Grenville (P. G.) Wodehouse to you-had often described...
...woman in Pelham, on her way to the beauty parlor, heard the Boston plane roar overhead as the sirens shrilled. She jammed on her brakes, was rammed by a truck, staggered into the beauty parlor, shrieked: "Hitler's coming!" and fainted...