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Refund. In Brighton, England, Mordicisa James, 42, caught with his hand in a church poorbox, explained that he had contributed to it in the prayerful hope of finding a job, landed one that didn't pay enough, wanted his money back...
While Harvard faculty and students were enmeshed in their terms-end Battle of the Blue Books, the Massachusetts Legislature considered and rejected a proposal which would have crippled not only Harvard but every institution of higher education in the state. Messrs. Jordan and Lobel, from Revere and Brighton respectively, introduced a bill to withdraw the exemption from taxation for all colleges in the Commonwealth whose student body does not contain a minimum of sixty-five percent Bay State citizens...
...beginning, he had fetched far less: as a tyro with a Welsh burr, he had covered smoke-hall concerts in Brighton for 25 shillings a week. He got his fill of spot news and close calls in the Boxer Rebellion and the Russo-Japanese war. In his day he had run the Manila Times, worked for Hearst and Pulitzer and-luckily-for George Creel at the World War I Peace Conference. Lord Northcliffe, then in control of the London Times, hired him at Versailles for the Washington...
Victorians were appalled, but the Lawrence sisters saw their duty and did it. Nellie, Millie and Dollie Lawrence thought that young English ladies were too delicately nurtured; what they needed was a more robust schooling-the kind Eton gave to boys. On a breeze-bathed seacoast near Brighton, in 1885, the sisters built their new Roedean (rhymes with so keen) School...
...Nellie Lawrence was too old to high-dive from Brighton's pier any longer; she and her sisters turned over Roedean to big-boned, red-cheeked Emmeline Tanner. Last week, at 70, stately, awesome Miss Tanner was ready in her turn to retire...