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...most of us, the sinking of the Titanic is a tragic historical event. For Barbara West Dainton, one of the last two survivors, the 1912 disaster was intensely personal. Her father, who helped shuttle 10-month-old Barbara, along with her sister and mother, onto a lifeboat, was one of the 1,500 lost. Over the years, Dainton refused to discuss the events, and she insisted her funeral take place before her death was announced. She?...
Redbricks abound in able professors, from Leeds's noted Chemist Frederick Dainton to Swansea's Novelist Kingsley (Lucky Jim) Amis. But not all redbrick dons are happy with their "exile" from cozy Oxbridge. Novelist Amis himself is shifting soon to Cambridge. Says Nobel Prizewinner Cecil Frank Powell, head of Bristol's topnotch (cosmic rays) physics department: "We've got Cambridge licked in our department-but Cambridge nevertheless has something we can never match...
...sovereign of Scotland; a National Coal Board man (Brian Oulton), who is assigned to commandeer the castle as a hostel for miners. The plot is thickened by a wealthy American widow (Barbara Kelly), who is out to buy the castle, and by a pretty blonde ghost named Ermyntrude (Patricia Dainton), who was the mistress of the earl's grandfather...
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