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Irving's easily daunted hero is Fred ("Bogus") Trumper, a monumental procrastinator with a talent for bungling. Bogus' hardscrabble effort to support his wife "Biggie" and infant son Colm by selling football pins and pennants is thwarted by a mob of fans who pick clean his display board. Seeing his existence threatened by "little things-errors of judgment, but never crimes" -Bogus begins identifying with Akthelt, the heroic warrior and lover in Akthelt and Gunnel-an absurd Old Low Norse epic he is translating for his doctoral thesis. And when Akthelt is told "Det henskit of krig...
...return "the prince's hair was even closer to his eyebrows than usual," London's more or less crewcut Daily Express pressed the attack with a monumental grouse: "Not one photograph of him has ever revealed his forehead!" The trail led to an elegant tonsorial emporium called Trumper's, which fortnightly dispatches a barber named Crisp to the palace to shear Charles (price of the haircut: 62?). What manner of brow lurks beneath the Prince's plunging forelock? "We never," announced Trumper's aloofly, "discuss the heir's hair...
Life in Creighton village on the British island of Barbados was primitive, but no one. least of all a boy. could call it dull. There were playmates with such names as Trumper. Po King and Boy Blue. There was an occasional flood that carried away the shacks of the natives. There was the great blue sea to swim in, the teachers at school ever ready to cane the inattentive, the vigorous back-fence give & take between parents and neighbors...
...presence of his mother, Princess Elizabeth, he stood up well under the ordeal of his first boughten haircut at Birkhall, near Balmoral, Scotland, where the royal family is vacationing. His golden locks were trimmed enough to give him "a young gentleman's appearance" by Felix West, of Trumper's, London, who also cuts the hair of Grandfather King George. Burbled Barber West: "He sat up like a little man while I went at it with the scissors. Didn't even squirm. Laughed when I tickled his ear with a comb...
Died. George Trumper, 70, hairdresser to the last three British Kings, proprietor of the topflight tonsorial Mayfair Shop on Curzon Street; in London. Barber Trumper, black razor case in hand, needed no special pass to enter Buckingham Palace regularly trimmed the present King's locks every ten days...