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Player's Weight. In Blackpool, England, Ventriloquist Terry Hall was threatened with loss of membership in the Association of Non-Smokers unless he stops his dummy from smoking during...
...signs are visible everywhere. British-not U.S.-cars choke Piccadilly, British weekers jam vacation resorts at Blackpool and Brighton. Simpson's in the Strand is serving its famed roast beef, and in poor neighborhoods, stores whose stock in trade was once chiefly Brussels sprouts and potatoes now feature oranges and even avocados. Across the North Sea. Scandinavians are thriving. Norway has rebuilt its merchant fleet to twice its prewar tonnage, added 100 hotels since 1945. Norwegian housewives, who bought only 2,000 washing machines in 1950, snapped up 64,000 last year. Even in chronically impoverished Ireland, real national...
Quiet on Earth. In Blackpool, England, telephone operators, hoping for more free holiday time, urged authorities to start a campaign aimed at discouraging "use of the telephone on Christmas Day and New Year...
Thousands cheered at the Labor Party Conference at seaside Blackpool when a teller recited the vote that made Bevan party treasurer (by a margin of 274,000 over Candidate George E. Brown). The truth was that the cheers were more for a party decision than for ruddy, white-thatched Nye Bevan himself. Said a Mine Union leader: "We thought he'd be better cornered in office than left wild outside." Sighed a delegate: "Phew, unity at last...
After nearly three weeks in Great Britain, roly-poly Georgy Malenkov, the visitor from Russia, was getting to be almost like one of the family. Journeying northward from London, he stopped in at Lancashire's teeming seaside Blackpool, smiled amiably avuncular smiles right and left among the crowds of vacationing Britons, and gave a honeymooning bride a box of chocolates. Offering a stick of rock candy to three-year-old Richard Davies, 54-year-old Georgy said: "I have a grandson of this age. His name is Peter. This is for peace between Peter and Richard...