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...vacant by the death of Tory M.P. Lieut. Colonel Wentworth Schofield. Contesting the seat again for Labor was 47-year-old Jack McCann, a local diesel-engine fitter, who was handily defeated by Schofield in the last general election. A sturdy, 41-year-old real-estate agent from nearby Burnley named John Parkinson was to hold Rochdale for the Tories. The unexpected element in the race: Britain's long-dormant Liberals, who decided to enter the lists with a candidate of their own. He was Ludovic Kennedy, 38, Eton and Oxford, lecturer on current affairs and latterly a widely...
...middleweight final, between French Sailor Marcel Cerdan and Technical Sergeant Ralph Burnley of Philadelphia, a Negro, stole last week's" show. Both were pros before they went into the service. The Negro, who is crew chief of a P-51 fighter group, ploughed into the Frenchman with abandon, took Round One. Cerdan's right scored three skull-jarring hits in Round Two, floored the Philadelphian three times for a count of nine. Cerdan took the title on a technical K.O. at the bell...
Those in launches or on the train saw Cornell and Washington away first: watched California's scarecrow stroke Dick Burnley, make his first challenge at the mile; noticed the way Navy at the halfway mark held on behind California and Washington. At the railroad bridge, 1 mile from the finish, California began to challenge in earnest; Washington's stroke Ed Argersinger, sent his beat up and began to watch California whittle down his half length lead by inches...
...Uncle Arthur who sat up in bed, had his back gently slapped, his big paw shaken. Actually the sick leader had been defeated. His hard-swearing, quarter-deck-pacing opponent, Rear-Admiral Gordon Campbell, V. C. retired, Conservative, who commanded British "Mystery Q Ships" during the War, had won Burnley by 8,209 votes. At "The Old Bull," when this terrible truth was known, party workers could not bring themselves to face the Chief...
Defeat faced Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald at Seaham (see below) where the vote was cruelly close, and Opposition Leader Arthur Henderson lost his seat at Burnley. But neither could be irrevocably "defeated." When the leader of a British party fails to win, some henchman who has won a "safe seat" resigns, turns it over to the leader at a cut-and-dried by-election...