Word: brighton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minister Winston Churchill, acting as leader of Britain's Conservative Party, made a blunder. Irked by the Tory defeat at Skipton (TIME, Jan. 24), he took a strong stand against Independent Bruce Dutton Briant, who had dared to oppose a Conservative Coalitionist in a Parliamentary by-election at Brighton. Said Churchill in a letter to Brighton voters: Briant's claim of supporting the Prime Minister, while running as an Independent, was a "swindle." Resentful Brightonians did not elect Briant, a local barrister, but they did give him enough votes to give the Conservatives a scare...
...Brighton's last Parliamentary contest (1935), a Tory candidate won by 41,437 votes over his nearest opponent. Last week the Churchill-Coalition candidate, Flight Lieut. William Teeling, defeated Independent Briant by a bare 1,958 votes (14,594 to 12,636). Conservative alarm was due as much to Churchill's error as to the outcome. Tories rely on Churchill's enormous popularity, and his skill at using it, to help win the next general election...
Trail Blazer. In West New Brighton, N.Y., Thomas Calabori, who used to make dental forceps, found himself at last in a dentist's chair. When the dentist reached for a forceps, Calabori jumped from the chair through a closed window, dropped ten feet to the sidewalk, persuaded the dentist that the tooth no longer hurt, succeeded in canceling the appointment...
...impeccable grandmother; in London. At 27, red-haired Elinor Sutherland attracted longtime bachelor and coupon-clipper Clayton Glyn with her wasp waist, green eyes, and the social splash she made when four white-tied suitors leaped into a lake at her command. In 1892 (she claimed) he hired Brighton's swimming baths for their exclusive honeymoon use. In Three Weeks (1907) she revealed the effects on each other of a Swiss hotel, a Russian enchantress, a clean young Englishman, and a tigerskin rug. In Hollywood in 1927 she modernized these horse-&-buggyish ardors in the road-sterish form...
Murille Grieve of Cobham and Violet May Nicholson of Kingston-upon-Thames arrived at Brighton for a brief vacation. They stepped into a shop and were blown up to the next floor and buried in the debris, unable to move, not knowing whether they were dying or not. Eight hours later they were dug out. In a week they were ready to leave the hospital...