Word: walworth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They have headaches also familiar to Americans, including Teddy boys who carry flick knives to class, smash windows, abuse masters. But they do solve the basic problem: how to give late starters a chance to switch from one track to another. Says Headmaster George Rogers of London's Walworth Secondary School: "This year I shall have a sixth form of 20 students all studying for certificates at university-entrance levels. Not bad for eleven-plus failures...
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...
...DAVID H. WALWORTH...