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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...owner is a Jew." In Wales, signs appeared on a school wall reading: "Jewish murderers" and "Hitler was right." At Kingstanding, near Birmingham, hooligans stole into a Jewish cemetery, uprooted gravestones, defaced them with signs: "Hang the Jews," "Dirty Jews," "Pig," "Swine." There were other outbreaks in Cardiff, Devonport, Liverpool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dark Tide | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

...cadet (at one shilling a month) in white-hulled, white-topped, square-rigged ships, "with no steam at all." First of his family to follow the sea, he left his Lake District home for the long (about 100 days each way) run through the clean seas that lie between Liverpool's dirty Mersey and Rangoon's dirty Irrawaddy. Out with salt and back with rice, Captain Illingworth remembers now. "It was a hard life and a good life," he says, "and I like to think there will never be a better way of learning this trade. We used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: The Queen | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

...Questions? In Liverpool, England, Chef Paul Greenburge was perfectly frank with the bobbies about why he had kidnaped a 17-year-old girl and lived with her for a year: "She is a very pretty girl and I was fed up with my wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 21, 1947 | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...Liverpool, England's best hope of winning the British Open golf championship died when haughty Henry Cotton took a second-round 78 and stormed off the green in a huff. One London paper consoled its readers: "For a welcome change, the Americans are not in the van." In fact, most topflight U.S. pros, including Defending Champion Sam Snead, did not even show up.* The winner: jaunty little Ulsterite Fred Daly of Belfast, who grinned and said: "It's lucky to be Irish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Winning Guests | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

When Gordon Richards broke his first big record, at England's Liverpool track 14 years ago, the news was considered important enough to be telephoned to Buckingham Palace. A mite of a man, son of a Shropshire coal miner, Jockey Richards, by riding 247 winning thoroughbreds in one season, had outdone Fred Archer's 1885 British record.* Richards' own comment hardly seemed up to the occasion. Said he: "It's been a very trying time for me and I'm very glad it's over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wonder Man, Wonder Horse | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

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