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...Tommy Bolt, of Durham, N.C., the North and South Open Golf tournament; at neighboring Pinehurst. Bolt, an unheralded pro, upheld U.S. golf prestige over Britain's visiting Ryder Cup team after all but one of the U.S. team members withdrew. Most notable of the defeated: Defending Champion Sam Snead, U.S. Ryder Cup captain, who quit after a second-round...
...Eighteen anti-Communist seamen, who jumped ship from the Polish liner Batory at Durham, England...
...heart, Falkner was an antiquarian. He delighted in local history and prized his job as honorary reader in paleography at the University of Durham. Five years after Moonfleet, he wrote another adventure story, The Nebuly Coat, which the critics liked even better, but which did not sell nearly so well as the story of Johnnie Trenchard. It was Falkner's last fling as a novelist. Increasingly, like a sensible Englishman, he turned his attention to business. By 1915, he was chairman of the munitions firm of Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. But by 1932, when he died, it was clear that...
...dawn one day last week, the day shift went down to take over from the night shift at Easington colliery, Durham, England. In the long, narrow tunnel leading from the main shaft to the coal face, 1,000 feet below the surface, 40 incoming miners filed past 40 outgoing miners. By the dim light of their head lamps, they exchanged the customary cheery "Good morning." Suddenly an explosion shook the earth. The 80 men were buried beneath tons of debris...
...Brilliant Buccaneering." The dispute moved on. The T.U.C.'s Scottish branch canceled an invitation to Bevan to address their annual conference. A statement on behalf of 110,000 County Durham miners declared Bevan's resignation "unwarranted." Food Minister Maurice Webb echoed: "We really cannot have Mr. Bevan's brilliant kind of buccaneering." Hugh Gaitskell, in a speech at Glasgow, hit back openly at Bevan, called for a ceiling on welfare services until rearmament is achieved. He said he was convinced that raw materials shortages, one of Bevan's big talking points, would not defeat the arms...