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  • Dr. F. H. Bowen, one of the early lecturers in the UCWI's Medical College at the time.
  • Persons - Jamaica; College teachers - Jamaica; Lecturers - Jamaica; Bowen, F. H.
  • *Dr. F.H. Bowen in the foreground. Before his appointment as lecturer to the Department of Physics of the University’s Medical College, Dr. Bowen had served in the army, studied in the U.S. and taught in Africa and England before returning to...
  • UWI Historical Photographs Collection
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  • Dateline, London..A talk, BBC broadcast
  • Immigrants - Great Britain ; London (England) - Social conditions
  • The author presents his own perception of London, a city of contrasts where he saw so many things he had only read about. Recently arrived from Jamaica, he found the British helpful and courteous, and his encounter with people of so many different...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Dateline London
  • Immigrants - Great Britain ; London (England) - Social conditions
  • The author presents his own perception of London, a city of contrasts where he saw so many things he had only read about. Recently arrived from Jamaica, he found the British helpful and courteous, and his encounter with people of so many different...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Consider the screever
  • Biographical fiction
  • The author explains how he came to give up his “… comparatively secure and carefree life of a screever ( a pavement artist)” to become a scribe – one who writes little pieces for the newspaper. None of this would have happened if he had not been...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Consider the screever
  • Biographical fiction
  • The author explains how he came to give up his “… comparatively secure and carefree life of a screever ( a pavement artist)” to become a scribe – one who writes little pieces for the newspaper. None of this would have happened if he had not been...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Consider the limpet
  • Interpersonal relations ; Boarding houses - Fiction
  • The author presents an unfiltered observation of the minutiae of daily life around him. This includes his landlady complaining about the meter, the dog waiting to be walked, Anita talking to the parrot, Mr. Zacca coming down late to breakfast and...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Consider the limpet
  • Interpersonal relations ; Boarding houses - Fiction
  • The author presents an unfiltered observation of the minutiae of daily life around him. This includes his landlady complaining about the meter, the dog waiting to be walked, Anita talking to the parrot, Mr. Zacca coming down late to breakfast and...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Christmas Eve
  • Christmas stories; City and town life; Rural life; Interpersonal relations; loss
  • Christmas Eve is usually a time of food, laughter and good cheer, but for some like Connie, there is little cause to celebrate. In the country, she listens to her family’s chatter as they express their wishes for a better new year. Mass Jim talks...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Buried treasure
  • Deception ; Buried treasure ; Man-woman relationships
  • As far as Joshua is concerned, women are not very smart and he has no intention of spending his fortune on his wife who considers him mean and lazy. He denies these accusations along with her saying he is easy prey to any conman, until the stranger...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • A yellow leaf
  • Love stories ; Man-woman relationships
  • A thirty-six year old man find himself developing a passion for a blossoming soon-to be seventeen year-old and he is not sure what to do about it. Sensing that his feelings are being reciprocated, he ponders the many ramifications of such a...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • A Pot of Cyclamen
  • Life ; Philosophy
  • The author purchases a pot of bright flame-coloured flowers to help lessen the austerity of the grey London weather, and to remind him of his home country where the landscape seems eternally drenched in sunlight. This simple act affords him the...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • A Man can laugh
  • Boxing ; Love stories
  • Having just won the boxing match, Nick did not like listening to Spink, his manager, telling him that he would only be good for a few more fights because his legs were giving out. Nick’s uncertainty about the nature of the relationship between his...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles

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