Edited by Nicolas Bentley—British Book Centre ($2.25). Out of the murk of the London slums, as he tells it himself, arose a “bloody bookworm” named Fred Bason. At 15, Fred already had his ...

Waterloo Road Played against the drab, bomb-shattered background of a London slum, story is the familiar triangle theme with use of the flashback technique not adding to its originality. But it's ...