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...loved her from then onwards." Once, her teacher led her to a piano, put a piece of paper under the strings, and struck a chord. "That," she said, "is what your voice sounds like." Gertie worked hard to get rid of her cockney twang. On a Sunday excursion to Brighton, she put a penny in a fortune-telling machine. The pink card she got told her her fate: A star danced, And you were born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Last Dance | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...Birds. In Brighton, England, Herbert Coles, charged with annoying girls in bathing suits by whistling at them, was released after he explained that he was only feeding sparrows, and produced a sack of bread to prove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 28, 1952 | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

Forty-four percent of the Class of '52 will be graduated with honors. One senior. Natalie Rae Dosick of Brighton, will receive a bachelor of arts summa cum laude...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 199 Cliffedwellers Graduate in 70th School Exercises | 6/18/1952 | See Source »

With security measures thus complete, the trial got under way. It was an action by a Brighton shopgirl named Diana Grace Rains-Bath against Russian-born U.S. Hypnotist Ralph Slater (real name Joseph Bolsky) for damage incurred during a music-hall show three years ago. Slater, Diana charged, had not only hypnotized her in the course of his act as he intended, but sent her home in a psychological depression that lasted almost three years. It took, she said, 23 visits to Australian-born Dr. Sydney Van Pelt, president of the British Society of Medical Hypnotists and avowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Entrancing Trial | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

Also at the R.K.O. is an English thriller, The Young Scarface, that gives a rather accurate picture of England's seamy side. It traces the bloody path of a razor wielding cut-throat as he hacks his way from London's slums to Brighton Beach. DAVID C.D. ROGERS

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Sword's Point | 2/26/1952 | See Source »

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