![]() ![]() ![]() But after the grim years of conflict, social life flourished and Green could indulge his fondness for sport and the theatre, where his disastrous experiences sowed the seeds of the coming series which later became a household word. Home life was a succession of cheap lodgings where female guests were banned, so romances had to be conducted up alleys or in the parks. There was little glamour and the most exciting story an illicit love affair between attendants at the town's chief male and female lavatories, which used to close when passion overtook the couple. Pay was poor and drunken reporters liable to besiege the editor in his office. Most of the editorial staff had also returned from the war and were continuing hostilities, this time with the tight-fisted editor. Returning from the Army in badly fitting demob clothes, the author resumed his career as a local journalist in a land where rationing was still in force. ![]() Michael Green, author of the 'Art of Coarse' books, has now written the second part of his autobiography, the eagerly awaited sequel to The Boy Who Shot Down an Airship. ![]()
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