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...Author. Writing funny stories is not all sherry and biscuits to Pelham ("Plum") Grenville Wodehouse, 51. He started it as a release from the tedium of a high stool in the Bank of England where his father's sudden retirement landed him instead of in Oxford. His scribbling soon persuaded the head clerk ("dark...
...bedside his only daughter, Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok; his stepdaughter. Mrs. John Charles Martin and her husband, his newspaper-publishing partner. Two days later the great pipe organ downstairs on which Mr. Curtis liked to improvise for a few minutes before breakfast (sitting on a special stool because he was short), breathed the strains of "Hymn to the Night" while the Men's Singing Club of Portland sang the words: ''Softly now the light of day fades upon my sight away. . . ." Large among the floral pieces which banked the music room was one in the shape...
...Author. Few apprenticeships to the Muse have been served in less promising quarters than Walter John de la Mare's. When he had twitched off the cassock of St. Paul's Cathedral Choir School he went to a high stool in the London office of Anglo-American Oil Co., spent 18 years there ploughing barren columns of figures. To overcome his environment and catch his Muse's eye, young de la Mare let his black hair grow long and wavy, attired himself according to his idea of the Latin Quarter. And while he kept others' books...
...smelled like cool glue. Here, where once had been a well whence Mr. Ridley provided his tenements with cheap water of questionable purity, the strange, 88-year-old man had partitioned off a cheerless office. There were two iron safes, a high counting desk and swivel stool where his clerk sat, and Mr. Ridley's rolltop desk. Neither of the occupants ever took off his rubbers or overcoat. In their Dickensian foxhole they shared a lunch of bread and cheese...
...bottom of the subcellar stairs, visible by the light of one yellow bulb glowing dismally in the office, the garageman found Old Man Ridley. His curly white beard was torn out in great patches, one ear was gone, his head had been bashed many times with the swivel stool. In the ghostly underground quiet, Lee Weinstein was found. He had been shot seven times in the stomach, chest, neck and face. None in the neighborhood had seen the murderer come...