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...London, Christopher Robin Milne, 27, storybook hero of father A. A. Milne's famed whimsicalities, announced that this summer he would marry Lesley Selin-court, 22, a librarian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Happy Days | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

Made the startled robin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 19, 1948 | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...Robin Hood's Bay, on the rocky Yorkshire coast, is an old fishing village isolated by sea and moor. Picturesque houses climb crazily up a steep cliff. Saint Stephen's Church, at the top of the cliff, is one of the centers of community life for most of the 800 villagers. There they go for a crowded weekly calendar of services, whist drives, community sings, jumble (rummage) sales and church dances. There, since 1944, tall, sturdy Rev. Arthur Patrick has presided over his flock. Until last month, few in Robin Hood's Bay knew what a blight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Poison Pen | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

Spring Cleaning. It began in 1928 with a series of anonymous letters attacking the vicar, then Canon Desmond Lloyd Wilson, for shooting at birds. Within a few months the letters had driven him from Robin Hood's Bay. His successor, too, resigned under a barrage of anonymous scurrility. One later incumbent of Saint Stephen's got more peace of mind; his wife, without his knowledge, intercepted anonymous letters which arrived for him each week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Poison Pen | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...vicar, who is now pretty sure he knows who Big Baby is, is not dull, but at week's end he had still not named the poison penman of Robin Hood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Poison Pen | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

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