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...only gets off his horse when he is watching a horse show. Uncles Ernest and Nicholas are still getting aged and shaky; Grandma Adeline (who died some books ago) is lively as a cricket at the age of 98. Brothers Eden (22), Piers (19), Finch (15), Wakefield (8) are still in the process of growing into the well-known adults they have long since become : their habits of twisting each other's arms, catcalling and frolicking make grandma trumpet, "Ha! I like to see the whelps rioting!" New to Jalna is Dilly Warkworth, a charmer from Yorkshire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Whelping of Jalna | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

...freshman team will compete this afternoon with Boston College, Rhode Island, and Trinity in an 11-team regatta of the Schools Sailing Club at Wakefield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Rated Slight Favorite in Regatta Against M.I.T., Brown | 4/11/1953 | See Source »

Teaming with Wetzler and Cabill, both 6'4", in the Husky forward line will be Bud Costello, 6'3". Bill Wakefield and Tony Fasciano, both 5'11", are slated to open at guard spots...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Quintet Meets Huskies at IAB Tonight | 2/18/1953 | See Source »

...bosom (a prominent feature of this novel) was agitated by this question whenever she saw Sir John Templar, in a bedroom across the street, "take a running jump and land ploof" alongside Molly Quin, his doxy. To make matters worse, Sabrina was married to old Sir William Wakefield, "a spent candle." How, Sabrina wondered, could she escape from Sir William and join ardent Sir John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ploof | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

...years have British newsmen worked so hard on a story as they did last week when Britain's first atom spy, Dr. Alan Nunn May, was released from Wakefield prison (see FOREIGN NEWS). For 15 days outside the prison gates, more than 30 reporters stood a freezing round-the-clock watch, hired special radio-equipped cars, guarded every entrance and pounced on every lead for news of May's release. But for every step the newsmen took, the Home Office, which runs Britain's prisons, took a counterstep to thwart them. "It is undesirable," said the Home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: GONE | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

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