The JC’s fictional heroes
Preaching righteous truth with the power of metaphor.
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Grumman captured rather in implausibly romantic fashion (in that he is depicted outside his study and not with a scotch in hand, as was his habit) by Birgit von Sachsen-Rampton
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Winthrop Grumman (b. 1896, Dingwall, Nova Scotia d. 1956, Suez, Egypt) was a dilettante, adventurer, polar explorer and literary critic, in the last of which pursuits he was especially fond of disparaging the pedestrian works of Austrian librettist Otto Büchstein.