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Reluctant Lions. Today, Cockney Bookman Fred Bason is a minor British institution. He addresses Rotary luncheons, mimes on BBC television and exchanges bibliophiliac chatter with his pal, "Willy" (Somerset) Maugham. Nonetheless, at 42, Fred still lives in shimmy Walworth, and though he also owns a bookshop now, still hawks books from a barrow "in the gutter." Like every famed "character," he is permanently hoist with his own reputation: he can no more afford to become rich, or grammatical, or stop collecting autographs or saying "blimey!" than Groucho Marx can afford to adopt an upright, manly stance and a look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: View from the Gutter | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

...DAVID H. WALWORTH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 2, 1950 | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

...varsity scoring: First period--Lea, MIT, (Walworth) 7:56; Lea, MIT, (Grady) 8:33; Moseley, Harvard, (Huntington) 9:00; Kittredge, Harvard, 12:11; Garrity, Harvard, (Preston) 15:42; Preston, Harvard, (Garrity, Greeley) 16:01; Hamilton, MIT, 16:10; Lea, MIT, (Walworth) 17:14; Walworth, MIT, (Fuller...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hockey Team Trims Engineers, 13-6 | 2/24/1949 | See Source »

Both Jack Carman and Huntington led the Crimson scoring parade with three goals apiece, and the latter also was credited with an assist. Donald Lea was high man for Tech with two scores. HARVARD MIT Chase g Connor Coulter rd Bradley Greeley ld Fuller Key c Walworth Garrity rw Lea Carman lw Hamilton...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Sextet Smothers MIT, 16-8, for First Victory | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...history, but it has had its moments. In 1827, Joseph Smith told of finding near Palmyra, N.Y., the cache of inscribed golden tablets* later translated into the Book of Mormon. Some years later another Mormon named James Jesse Strang found another cache of engraved tablets (brass this time) in Walworth County, Wis. In 1869 diggers near Cardiff, N.Y. unearthed what was thought to be petrified proof positive of a vanished race of American supermen-until it developed that the 2,966-lb. "giant" had been carved (out of Iowa gypsum) by a joker in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Holand's Crusade | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

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