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Before starting work, Rumpole fortifies himself with a full English breakfast at the Tastee Bite, a place of Formica-topped tables, fried food and steaming tea urns. His young pupil Phillida Trant chose this venue to confide that she was pregnant, and Hilda's friend Dodo once popped in just as Rumpole was demonstrating manual strangulation on another lady pupil, Liz Probert. The Tastee Bite is fictional, but Bailey's Café, at 30 Old Bailey, is a good spot to sample the kind of fry-up Rumpole would have enjoyed...
Model for the new Britannia was Phillida Stone, an 18-year-old art student at Oxford whose father, Artist Reynolds Stone, was commissioned to design the new mauve, brown and blue fiver (worth $14). At a loss for a model, her father draped Phillida in a sheet, sat his daughter down with a stick in one hand to represent Britannia's spear. Her traditional olive branch was sketched in later. Some found the new design an agreeable change from the buxom figure on most other money. Other Britons thought Phillitannia "clumsily designed," "like Snow White" and "too much like...
...Daily Express library, filing clippings. After World War I he was rehired as a reporter, but later was laid off. He tried short-story writing, then caught on as a reporter for the London Daily Mirror. There he acquired no reputation, but did acquire a wife: Mirror Reporter Phillida Hughes. They were once assigned to cover a pomp-&-pageantry affair. Since both suffered from ochlophobia (fear of crowds), they covered it from a tea shop. Gubbins wrote a glowing account of the occasion sight unseen and had time left to persuade Phillida to marry...
...this time describing Avignon and Orange. Prof. Shaler discusses "The Red Sunsets" and their probable cause. Oliver T. Morton, son of the late Senator Morton of Indiana, writes about "Presidential Nominations;" Maria Louise Henry contributes a sketch of Madame de Longueville. Bradford Torrey has an interesting bird article, entitled "Phillida and Coridon;" while the Contributors' Club has some delightful extracts from a "Rhymed Letter" by James Russell Lowell, not included in his volumes...
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