As a student of Benno Landsberger and Sidney Smith, his knowledge was grounded in immediate knowledge and experience that went back to the earliest years of Assyriology.
Among the school and college friends with whom he continued intimate were Archbishop William Howley, Bishop Richard Mant, and Sidney Smith.
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After defeating the now 45-year-old Sidney Smith — runner-up of 1938 and 1939 — in the quarter-finals, the 15 year younger John Pulman reached the semi-finals, where he played the eventual winner Fred Davis, before he retired and gave Davis an early bye into the final.
Those who participated in these early meetings included François Norbert Blanchet, William J. Bailey, Mr. Charlevon, David Donpierre, Gustavus Hines, William Johnson, Jason Lee, Étienne Lucier, Robert Moore, Josiah Lamberson Parrish, Sidney Smith, and David Leslie.
The Gumps, a popular comic strip about an ordinary family by Sidney Smith