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where, being both small for his age and a latecomer to his year, he initially suffered greatly from bullying – to his intense relief, the bully was killed in a cycling accident whilst on holiday – but his stock quickly rose when he revealed a talent which matched his passion for cricket. With a hint
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Ross came to prominence as a poet with poems inspired by his experience during the Second World War. He was one of the few poets who wrote poems in
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in 1950, and became the paper's cricket correspondent in 1953, the same year his son was born. Throughout the 1950s he was a regular contributor to
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until his death; during this period it was transformed from an academic literary review to a far more cutting-edge review of the arts.
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Green Fading into Blue: Writings on
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The Bandit on the
Billiard Table; a Journey through Sardinia
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People educated at
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the fixture was reduced to a single day and did not have
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British poet, writer, editor and publisher (1922–2001)
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An Australian Summer: The Recovery of the Ashes 1985
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in 1941. Before doing so, he appeared in the annual
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