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      UNITED Kingdom
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      ORWELL, George, 1903-1950
    • Abstract:
      Discusses why the author read boys' weeklies while growing up in Britain in the early 1970s. The stories of war and sport in the "Victor," a boys' adventure paper; Role of the hero Alf Tupper in "Victor'; Author's experience finding some old copies of "Victor"; Issue of patriotism; Author George Orwell's views on reading adventure stories; Observation that the "Victor" ignored the problems of our time, political or otherwise; Mention of the original boys' weekly, the "Boys' Own Paper," founded in 1879.