Word: englands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five weeks he traveled 1,600 miles around England, Scotland & Wales. Lugging a 28-lb. tape-recording machine, greying Editor McPherrin, 51, took down the opinions of Britons in pubs and chemists' shops. He lost ten of his 155 pounds, never paused for sightseeing, and brought back enough material to fill the whole July issue of his magazine. Net observation: the Health Act, which went into effect just a year ago, is popular with most Britons but is bad for them. Britain, McPherrin concluded, has become "Welfare Island...
...storytellers could top the one Ireland's Harry Bradshaw, 35, former Irish Open golf champion, could tell last week. It happened to him at Sandwich, England, in the second round of the British Open championship...
Grade A lords & ladies, driving their Daimlers and hunting the fox halfway in time between two world wars, swarm all over this chatty, rambling book. Lavish Hampton Park in western England, home of one of Britain's richest, noblest families, is their weekend headquarters. There, hostess Lady Montdore whips them through their social paces and screens the bachelors who swarm around her daughter. Polly Montdore at 19 is more beautiful than all the priceless Hampton oil paintings put together-and colder than a Highlands wind. When the man of her choice is free to marry, she does...
...World. In Blackpool, England, Violet Brindle protested that, in an effort to make her quit her job as a streetcar conductor, her husband had 1) blocked her trolley line by haranguing a crowd about his troubles, 2) burned the skirt of her conductor's uniform, 3) burned the supper peas...
Formula. In Isleworth, England, Samuel Taylor, 80, gave the secret of his long life: daily with meals, a brew of "stinging nettles, dandelions and fresh green shoots of a may bush...