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A Boy’s Song

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The family lived in London for many years while his father was writer and the editor (for 20 years) at “The Builder ” magazine. A slow cab, a fast train, a nice guard, a good dinner, a middling magazine (no names mentioned) made up together with a ticket my journey to Kings Cross. and then I read the Strand Magazine while Miss O.

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Incredible adventures, incredible journeys – India and beyond

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magazine about her fiction and her involvement with India, Incredible India and why it is so important to bring the story of the country to life for children and young people. As a little girl growing up in Nottingham, I was an avid reader and a member of the local library. Jasbinder spoke to CILIP's Pen&inc.

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Sergeant Dennis Fisher and Marine Corps Combat Photography in Vietnam

Unwritten Record

Mine was 0311 which was an infantry rifleman, and I was sent off for advanced infantry training. Wilson Hicks who was the former executive editor of Life Magazine. I met him in his role as advisor to student publications, primarily the Ibis yearbook, Tempo magazine, and Hurricane newspaper.