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...English side of the Channel thousands of civilians flocked to resorts like Brighton for "a last look at the sea" before April 1 closed the southern coastal areas to visitors...
Plimpton's Passion. Plimpton built a $100,000 rink in New York City and introduced his sport to Newport, where polo on roller skates became a fashion. England also rolled passionately on Plimpton's invention. By 1876, Brighton had six rinks. Members of Parliament skated daily at Prince's Club...
...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...