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...plenty of friends. All he had to do when in trouble was to peer over the footlights and cry: "You'll help me, won't you, children?"-and hundreds of squeaky voices would answer: "Of course we will, Noddy. Of course!" In the six years since Author Enid Blyton first put him into a book. Little Noddy has amassed a formidable following...
Five Hundred Slips. To Enid Blyton, success was predictable. She has developed such an instinct for what children like that she almost never fails to please. As a young woman, she had a school of her own. She taught all the subjects herself, wrote all the children's stories, started trying to sell them to publishers. By the time she married Surgeon Kenneth Darrell Waters, she had 500 rejection slips, but was still determined to make writing her career...
...word adventure for "over elevenses" in a week. Some of these older books are really first-rate juvenile thrillers, have achieved such a vogue in the U.S. that public libraries can scarcely keep up with the demand. But just how many volumes she has produced in all, even Enid Blyton herself cannot tell. Best estimate...
Considering the acting, the real heroine is Enid Marcy as the woman from Dedham. Had she only repeated her lines, she would be a characterization rather than a character. Instead, she restrains the humor of her position and substitutes a touch of pathos. This fact alone changes her from a shallow critic of homespun virtue to a character equal in strength to her companion...
...Born. To Enid Margaret ("Peggy") Cripps Appiah, 33, youngest daughter of the late Sir Stafford Cripps. Britain's austerity Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Joseph Manuel Appiah, 33, Ashanti law student and personal representative in Britain of the Africa Gold Coast's Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah: their first child, a son; in London. Weight: 8 lbs. 8 oz. Name: Kwame...