INTRODUCTION
My publisher wants me to apologize for—“introduce”
was the kindly word he used—this collection
of articles and verses from Punch. I do
so with plea...
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A.A. Milne (1882-1956) worked as an essayist, a playwright, a poet, and an adult novelist, in addition to his important contribution as an author of juvenile books. Although he attempted to excel in a...
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Alan Alexander Milne was born in London. Youngest son of schoolmaster John Vine Milne, he attended Westminster School and later Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was graduated in 1903 with honors i...
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In his autobiography, It's Too Late Now (1939), A. A. Milne complains that his children's books have eclipsed his other kinds of writing. Best known before Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) as a playwright, Miln...
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A. A. Milne, father of Christopher Robin and creator of Winnie-the-Pooh, ended his career with a small verse in the New York Herald Tribune Book Review (12 October 1952) titled "Always Time for a Rhym...
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Four books by one author became classics almost as soon as they were published in the 1920s: When We Were Very Young (1924), Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Now We Are Six (1927), and The House at Pooh Corner...
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Berlin (dpa) - It only takes a few rays of sunlight and fashion-
conscious people all over to get out their new shades and go for a
stroll on the sunny side of the street.
...
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Munich (dpa) - Bayern Munich are looking to build a new team at
the end of a disappointing season which will likely see them absent
from Champions League action for the firs...
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With a full moon overhead, Ethan Ray, 14, stands in front of the Stone County Courthouse in Mountain View, Ark. (pop. 2,975), singing “Keep on the Sunny Side” accompanied by his mother,...
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THE BULLDOZER AND THE BIG TENT: BLIND REPUBLICANS, LAME DEMOCRATS, AND THE RECOVERY OF AMERICAN IDEALSBy Todd GitlinWiley, 327 pages, $25.95
I want to be upfront here: I’m a political junkie,...
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Leave it to Lorena Ochoa to find the sunny side of a tropical depression. Ochoa shot a 2-under 70 to maintain her three-shot lead at the Ginn Tribute on Saturday, though three bogeys over the final...
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Muqtada al-Sadr's decision to withdraw from the Shiite bloc is the most dramatic sign of the transformation in Iraqi politics. Old alliances are fraying, new ones are forming.That makes any progres...
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It's luxurious. It's tropical. It's oh, so pink. The Royal Hawaiian Hotel, aka "The Pink Palace of the Pacific,'' is just one of my favorite romantic getaways in that most romantic of places, Hawai...
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"Follow my path exactly," my guide instructed sternly as we set off on the Vallee Blanche glacier descent, warning me of the crevasses hidden among the blankets of snow and boulders of ice that giv...
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As the clock ran out on a Democratic Mayoral primary notable for its lethargy, front-runner Fernando Ferrer desperately scoured the city in search of enough votes to avoid a runoff, while his late-...
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The Sunny Side
Alan Alexander Milne
A(lan) A(lexander) Milne
Big sunglasses are back on the block in 2007
