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...made grown-ups furtive Author Alan Alexander Milne of Cotchford Farm, Hartfield, Sussex (not far from Artist Rackham's beech tree). He used to be (1906-14) an editor of Punch. He fought all through the War and got back safely to tell stories to his son, Christopher Robin, who encouragred his father (by asking for more) to write a book of jingles called When We Were Very Young (1924). Writing things was nothing new for Author Milne. He had had plays of his played both sides of the Atlantic (Mr. Pim Passes By, The Truth About Blayds...
...dozen commonplace-seeming men waited simultaneously one morning last week in the several London offices of the world's principal news agencies. Their cards betokened them representatives of an advertising firm. When they were admitted, they laid before thunderstruck news executives a round robin signed by over 100 of the world's most potent financiers, calling upon European nations to remove their tariff hindrances to international trade...
...Round Robin was entitled: A Plea for the Removal of Restrictions upon European Trade...
...preliminary tournament of the Harvard Chess Club is now going on at the Union, with 21 entrants playing a round-robin series to determine the team's makeup...
England's gypsy tribes, many of them, are unusual in this respect: unlike the nomadic folk of other countries they are not Romanies* but Englishmen. During famines and plagues and-as in the legendary case of Robin and his merrie men-during political upheavals, poor townsfolk or villagers have taken to the open road, the woods and the fields to scrape, beg or poach a living as best they can. England's winters are not severe enough to have killed them off. One generation of nomads has spawned another; continued poverty has bred shiftlessness; until today...