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John Edwards' hurly-burly campaign will be a far cry from that waged by the Tory candidate in the Conservative constituency of South Hendon, a residential section at the northern edge of London. At 47, Sir Hugh Vere Huntly Duff Lucas-Tooth, Bart., a graduate of Eton and Oxford, a lieutenant colonel of His Majesty's Cameron Highlanders, was not one to get in a pother about an election campaign; Sir Hugh had few doubts that his constituents would troop dutifully to the polls on Feb. 23 and return him to Parliament with an impressive majority. Said...
...campaign of South Hendon's Tories will be as conservative as their candidate. There will be only 19 meetings, and Lucas-Tooth will not bother to attend all of them. There will be no street-corner meetings ("Not here, y'know," Cockshut shudders), and there will be no loudspeaker cars, except on the actual day of the election ("Don't approve of that sort of thing," says Cockshut aggressively). "Our only slogan," added Dr. Cockshut, "is 'Lucas-Tooth.' That will appear on 15,000 stickers...
Family Circles. In Hendon and Golders Green, England, 96 married couples, all living with their in-laws, simultaneously solved their housing problems and their family troubles by swapping living quarters...
...damaged one of the London police courts last week, but as soon as chunks of debris had been shoveled out of the main courtroom, the magistrate resumed trial of usual petty police-court cases - drunkenness, pocket-picking, etc. A 74-year-old widow, Mrs. Amelia Graham, was hauled into Hendon Police Court on a drunken-driving charge. She proved that her physician was having her take a tablespoonful of whiskey every two hours to steady her nerves against the Blitz, notwithstanding was fined $80. One Alfred Jack Perry, 34, was arraigned at Stratford-on-Avon for walking past a time...
Another notion of Mark Twain's was that monarchies would do better if kings saw how their subjects lived. In medieval London's alleys, Edward fares not much better than his counterpart in the palace until he encounters a young soldier of fortune named Miles Hendon (Errol Flynn). Hendon feeds him, humors his apparently preposterous notion that he is the King of England, sets out, when the boy is kidnapped, to rescue him from John Canty's gang of thieves. When the rescue entails fighting off the palace guards, sent to kill the young King before...