{"id":18417,"date":"2026-06-01T06:28:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T05:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=18417"},"modified":"2026-06-01T06:28:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T05:28:47","slug":"teddy-edward-the-cardinal-and-what-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2026\/06\/01\/teddy-edward-the-cardinal-and-what-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Teddy Edward’, ‘The Cardinal’ and ‘What Happened?’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>‘Teddy Edward’<\/span><\/strong><\/em> features is a series of books by Patrick and Mollie Matthews. PAN Piccolo published<\/span> four titles<\/span><\/strong><\/a> based on the 1973 BBC TV programmes of which there were thirteen episodes. These were narrated by TV newsreader Richard Baker who also told the stories on records. There were annuals, stuffed toys, jig-saw puzzles and numerous other examples of merchandising. Patrick Matthews (1914\u20131996) worked as a writer, photographer, and cinematographer. He also served as a director for Cond\u00e9 Nast and managing director of Vogue Studios. <\/span>Mollie Matthews (1919\u20132001), born Winifred Mary Berry, initially worked as a personal assistant to the head of the British Military Mission to France before marrying Patrick in 1951.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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This weeks David Tayler rough is for 1960 edition of ‘The Cardinal’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Henry Morton Robinson. PAN published three editions of this title, the later two having artwork by another PAN stalwart, Glenn Steward. Robinson (07\/09\/1898 to 13\/01\/1961) was an American novelist born in Boston and graduated from <\/span>Columbia College in 1923 after serving in the US Navy during the First World War. <\/span>He was an instructor in English at Columbia University, and a senior editor at ‘Reader’s Digest’ He wrote thirteen novels of which PAN only published the one. On December 23, 1960, he fell asleep in a hot bath after taking a sedative. Three weeks later, on January 13, 1961, he died in New York of complications from the resulting second\u00a0 and third degree burns.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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Looking at old newspaper and magazine articles I noticed this one in ‘The Bookseller’ for the 18th April 1959. Now wondering why there was a problem, was it a specific title published that caused the demand?<\/span><\/p>\n\n

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