Word: stratford-on-avon
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...imagination, after all, Shakespeare himself? This never-quite-laid ghost has haunted the battlements of English literature for 100 years. In many corners of the world, scholarly and unscholarly fanatics have spent the best part of their lives trying to prove that the son of a simple Stratford-on-Avon townsman was literature's greatest bluff...
...Amelia Graham, was hauled into Hendon Police Court on a drunken-driving charge. She proved that her physician was having her take a tablespoonful of whiskey every two hours to steady her nerves against the Blitz, notwithstanding was fined $80. One Alfred Jack Perry, 34, was arraigned at Stratford-on-Avon for walking past a time bomb against police orders. "This was sheer obstinacy!" boomed the mag istrate, fined Jack...
...March 13 issue, on p. 44, TIME said that a man in Stratford-on-Avon died...
Died. William Shakespeare (no kin), 83; of old age; in Stratford-on-Avon, England...
...luncheon of Chicago's Executives' Club, 84-year-old Novelist Opie Read was a guest. He made a speech to 400 people, broadcast over station WJJD. Said he, "Al Dunlap and I were in the same compartment on a train traveling from Stratford-on-Avon to London. Across the aisle sat a very thoughtful-looking Englishman, and in the seat opposite was an American. The American had been talking about the different trees he saw. 'You seem to be very well acquainted with timber,' said the Englishman. 'Yes, I was brought up among them...