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Excerpt from An Outline of Wells, the Superman in the Street For years I longed to meet Wells, but in somewhat the same way that I longed to go up in an aeroplane. The possibility that terror might kill the fun was always in my mind. When he came to America he proved to be less awe-inspiring than even a little army with banners. Fortunately, he was somewhat whittled down by the fact that his mission was journalism. After all we were both newspaper men. The executives of "The Morning World" referred to him as "our junior reporter" and he accepted the title with an air which was whimsical and yet a little proud. Still, even as a cub reporter Wells remained somewhat too dazzling for my comfort....
A 1964 analysis of the decline in Britain's share of world trade, considering the impact of the 'stop-go' economic policies of the 1950s
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