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...FLYING YORKSHIREMAN-Edited by Whit Burnett and Martha Foley-Harper...
...childhood and its ending as I have ever read." Said Short-Story Anthologist Edward J. O'Brien: "The art form that Boccaccio invented is born again full-blown in America at last." Said Novelist Dan Wickenden: "We have been rolling about on the floor over The Flying Yorkshireman...
Priestley; produced by Crosby Gaige). Author John Boynton Priestley is a blunt Yorkshireman who has written several popular books, of late years has turned to playwriting. Three of his plays are currently on the London stage. Last week one of them,*another attempt to dramatize that old riddle, time, failed to impress Manhattan audiences either as drama or as metaphysics. Time and the Conways was like a heavy slab of Yorkshire pudding with no roast beef...
...Church by his statements during the Italo-Ethiopian war. Replying energetically to the anti-Italian attacks of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of Westminster announced that the Pope was powerless to intervene in the war because he was "a helpless old man." For this, Archbishop Hinsley, long-jawed Yorkshireman, was passed over when on two occasions the Pope raised other prelates to the purple...
...search of the happiest subject, contemporary British novelists seldom look in their own industrial back yard, prefer instead when tired of the front-lawn and front-street side of English life to search in some other part of the world, especially where the climate is warm. As a traveler, Yorkshireman Eric Knight is no exception to the rest. As a writer he bristles with exceptions, the main one being that he has uncovered in a neglected corner of England's industrial back yard-the Yorkshire textile mill country-material for one of the sturdiest novels to cross the Atlantic...