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Show "Before I Die." To endow "before I die some sort of green place where little street urchins could play cricket, all accessories provided," pro-vided," was one of the dreams of Herbert Her-bert Jenkins, London publisher. He began be-gan life at fifteen In a bookseller's shop. He and another boy used to sit up half the night devouring books. That boy was the poet, John Minefield. Mine-field. Walking to save a penny omnibus omni-bus fare, refusing an Invitation to a liver picnic because of a sixpenny railroad rail-road fare, lunching on a bun this Is the picture of his early twenties, sa he many times described It. In 1911, when he was about 30, his "Life of George florrow" first brought him Into public view. He has Just died sfter building up a great publishing business. |