Word: ventnor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sunnylands Grange Select Summer School for Boys" is a moth-Eton travesty of an English public school. Its playing fields of welfare-state spivs supply most of the antic humor to be found in this uneven first novel. Oliver Ventnor, the book's mock-hero, is sent down from Oxford for forging his uncle's name to a check. Stony-broke and stonily rebuked by his pastor father, Oliver signs on as a teaching "captain" at Sunnylands Grange...
Greater Evil. In Ventnor, N.J., the city's new curfew siren was silenced after parents complained that although it warned children off the streets at 9:45 p.m., it also woke the babies who had already been...