Word: worplesdon
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...living in Paris) is not absolutely in midseason form, but perky as ever. Joy in the Morning is a chatty potboiler in the tradition of most Wodehouse works. Its setting is the familiar English hamlet of Steeple Bumpleigh; its characters include such Wodehouse fixtures as crocodile-toothed Lord Worplesdon ("he had got that way through presiding at board meetings"), twelve-year-old Hon. Edwin Worplesdon (a Boy Scout "who makes you feel that what this country wants is somebody like King Herod"), "Boko" Fittleworth ("a cross between a comedy juggler and a parrot that has been dragged through a hedge...
What came over was a broadcast by trained dogs from a kennel at Worplesdon, run by a Mr. and Mrs. Robert Montgomery. The program called for the Montgomerys to put their dogs through a set of paces and commands considered generally familiar to most well-behaved British dogs. As an audience participating stunt, "Calling All Dogs" proved a yelping success...
British Mixed Foursome. At Worplesdon, the final important golf tournament of the year came to a close with Joyce Wethered and Cyril J. H. Tolley the mixed foursomes champions of Britain. Miss Wethered, four times national champion, played the matches for the first time without the partnership of her brother Roger. The latter, paired with Molly Gourlay, champion of France, was early defeated...
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