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Welch also announced that Robert W. Chase '44, of Wellesley Hills and Thayer Hall., and Richard C. Sorlein, of Pelham Manor, N. Y. and Wigglesworth, has been added to the Jubilee Committee. These appointments give the Jubilee Committee twelve members and make it complete...
...noises are more thrilling than the shrieks of pleasure with which non-stop readers of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse sometimes curdle the late night air above pent and country houses. Aldous Huxleyans and Evelyn Waughans smile from time to time with irony and pity, but their eyelids are a little weary. Confirmed Wodehousians hoot, holler, writhe, snort, bellow, nicker, and in culminating transports, belch. Asked why, they may look blank, indignant. Anton Chekhov once said that the best description of the sea he had ever read was written by a Russian schoolboy: "The sea is vast." Wodehousians explain the master...
...Yorkshireman received a letter from his son in a German prison camp, who reported that among his fellow prisoners was bald, twinkly Novelist Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, last heard from in July when the Germans captured him and his Le Touquet villa...
Sample: a playlet which takes place in "the combination cellar and playroom of the Bradley home in Pelham Manor. Mr. and Mrs. Bradley and their two children, Bobby and Susie, are grouped about their new automatic oil burner. They are all in faultless evening dress, including Rover, the family Airedale." After a sufficiently shattering amount of balloon dialogue ("Oh, Moms, I'm so glad you and Dads decided to install a Genfeedco automatic oil burner and air conditioner with the new self-ventilating screen flaps plus finger control!"), Bobby answers the door and "admits Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher...
...heard of just before German entry into Paris, where he was working for the British Information Ministry); some 120 German and Austrian writers in France, most of them expatriated and sought by the Gestapo, including Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger, Franz Werfel. A five-day-old message from English Humorist Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, received by his daughter, described everything as normal in his French villa...