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...articles to Punch, his first book, Lovers in London, received such notices as: "The only readable part of this book is the title." Milne became an assistant editor of Punch, got married, and while serving as a signaling officer in World War I. wrote a play called Wurzel-Flummery. By 1923, he found himself a success. Then one day the lady editor of a new children's magazine asked him to write some verses. "I said that I didn't and couldn't, it wasn't in my line." As it turned...
Bringing Home the Mangel-Wurzel...
...article on Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer "Rab" Butler, TIME [April 5] says: "He spent summers picking mangel-wurzels." This evokes a picture of long summer days spent gathering something resembling scuppernongs. Does TIME imagine that mangel-wurzels grow on trees, or on vines? A mangel-wurzel is a variety of beet, only larger and considerably less tasty, grown as a cattle food. A mangel-wurzel is a stubborn root that parts company with the earth only after a vigorous tussle, and I don't envy Rab Butler his summer, even though he was paid...
...Club has been fortunate in securing the services of Edward P. Goodnow '17 as director. "Sarah Simple" will be the eighth play which Goodnow has directed for the Club and also his seventh Milne play. In 1921 he directed the Club's production of Milne's "Wurzel-Flummery" and in 1931 Milne's "Success," which later appeared in New York as "Give Me Yesterday...
...Plays: Wurzel-Flammery; Belinda; Mr. Pim Passes By; The Truth about Blayds. Books, principally for children: When We Were Very Young; Winnie-the-Pooh ; Now We Are Six (dedicated to Christopher Robin, son of Author Milne, with whom he is very affectionate...