“TOUGH” LIBRARIAN

Taranaki Daily News, 27 July 1935, Page 9

“TOUGH” LIBRARIAN

AN ASSISTANT AT 3 OXFORD. HIS ADVENTUROUS CAREER. / (By Air Mail.—Special io;News). i - London; June 1 27. ; Nobody meeting Mr. W.. G. Hiscock, the assistant librarian at Christ Church, Oxford, would guess what his apprenticeship had been like. Mr. Hiscock, who has come right into, the limelight by tracking down to a private library certain missing Oxford volumes of worth, is an old Conway boy, like the. present Poet Laureate. After completing his schooling on the Mersey he sailed as a windjammer apprentice. In the war he was a. lieutenant on the converted liner Macedonia; chivvying German raiders, and later, when the Otranto was sunk in mid-Atlantic, got away with little more than a sou’wester and a pair of sea boots. But the scar on his Upper lip, still, faintly discernible, Is not a war souvenir, but the .token of a setto with fists against a x tough. forecastle hand in his merchant service days. After leaving the sea he studied music, broadcast Masefield’s “Sea Fever,” and toured’ 1 the provinces with Capek’s “R.U.R.” Finally he returned to Oxford’s quiet closes and intensive study. >