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...last week, leaving a trail of death and disaster in its wake. Raging seas and roaring winds that reached a velocity of 177 m.p.h. blitzed dikes, flooded cities, inundated farm land, and capsized ships from Denmark to the British Isles. So strong were the gales at Britain's Catterick racetrack that gusts blew race horses off their legs and sent their jockeys flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: Mortal Storm | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

Lydon came home from 21 months in the P.W. camps to find himself facing charges of "misbehaving before the enemy in such a manner as to show cowardice." Last week, in a bare, hot courtroom at Catterick barracks, Lydon heard combat officers debate his fate with civilian psychiatrists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cowardice in Korea | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

Gracious Living. In Catterick, Yorkshire, England, Mrs. Margaret Rose, 45, suing her army husband's commanding officer for attempted rape, was asked by the defense why she offered the accused a drink after their set-to, and explained: "It's the normal thing in our house to offer people a drink on leaving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 28, 1952 | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

Trouble indeed ensued at an ATS dance last week in Catterick, Yorkshire. When an outside sentry gave the blackout midnight challenge and received no reply, he fired a shot through the dance-room window. The bullet smashed a bottle on the bar, gravely wounded one Signalman Chapman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Rules for ATS | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...Love." Since the Duke of Gloucester was obliged to mourn last week, he prepared to withdraw to the bachelor seclusion of his regiment at Catterick Camp. It was he who in 1926 represented King George at the marriage of Belgian Crown Prince Leopold and the beautiful young Swedish Princess who last week died Queen Astrid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Engagement with Crepe | 9/9/1935 | See Source »

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