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Connolly, Cyril (Vernon)

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Dates: (1903–74)
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Writer and journalist, born in Coventry, West Midlands, C England, UK. He studied at Oxford, contributed to the New Statesman and other periodicals, and wrote regularly for the Sunday Times. He was founder/editor of Horizon (1939–50), and briefly literary editor of the Observer. His only novel was The Rock Pool (1936). Among his works are Enemies of Promise (1938), The Unquiet Grave (1944), miscellaneous aphorisms and reflections, and various collections of essays.



Major works:

Novels
1936 The Rock Pool

Other
1938 Enemies of Promise
1944 The Unquiet Grave
1945 The Condemmed Playground
1963 Previous Convictions: Selected Writings of a Decade
1975 The Evening Colonnade

Editor
1939–50 Horizon


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• 1902 Death of Sir Frederick Abel (b.1827 in London), scientist, who invented cordite (with Sir James Dewar), and the Abel tester for determining the flash-point of petroleum.

• 1940 Birth of Jackie Trent in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, lyricist, who wrote the words for the theme music of the television soap Neighbours.

• 1948 First breaking of the sound barrier in Britain, by John Derry in a De Havilland DH 108 aeroplane, during a dive.

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Marlowe, Christopher (1564–93)
English playwright and poet


Accurst be he that first invented war.

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