Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage batted about by Authors Glenway Wescott (Apartment in Athens) and Charles Rolo (Wingate's Raiders) and by Critic John Mason Brown...
...Somerset Maugham: "I sit down with a fountain pen and paper and the story pours out. However lousy a section is I let it go. I write on to the end. Then the subconscious mind has done what it can. . . . The rest is simply effort . . . polishing, rewriting the lousy parts . . . going over a chapter time and time again, until, though you know it isn't right, it is the best...
...Human Bondage (Warner) is a handsome, efficient, totally unnecessary film remake of Somerset Maugham's 1915 novel. It contains few surprises for anyone who has ever read the reputedly autobiographical book or seen the well-made 1934 movie with the late Leslie Howard and Bette Davis...
...Canterbury (Roman Durovernum), many feet below the leveled shopping district, the diggers found a 3rd-Century mosaic floor, as perfect as when its Roman builders set down their tools 1,700 years ago. A more elaborate floor (see cut) showed up in Low Ham, Somerset, complete with prancing mosaic horsemen, naked ladies, and amorous Roman warriors...
...Somerset...