Word: liverpool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tape. Peter was so "downfallen, so sick in the stomach that I never left my house." His Liverpool fans, feeling equally ill, loyally marched along the Mersey, carrying banners proclaiming "Peter Forever, Ringo Never." Even with a bodyguard, Beatle George Harrison got his eye blackened. It was three weeks before Best felt up to leaving the house, but, unlike his fans, he bore no personal rancor. "I saw John and George in Liverpool a couple of minutes," he notes. "We're still the best of friends. I asked them, 'How's your mother...
...record enough of those troubles -neglect, poverty, manuscripts lost or burned-to make paranoiacs of 50 poets. Lowry first appears as "a small boy chased by furies." He strummed a guitar in dives, "ran away to sea," and the last thing he did to please his bewildered father, a Liverpool cotton broker who fox-hunted, was to graduate (third-class honors) in English from Cambridge. Years of wandering as a merchant seaman, a marriage in Paris, and a minor novel (Ultramarine, a Melville-and-blue-water affair) lay ahead before he fetched up in Mexico on a midget paternal subsidy...
Looks like it's three down and one to go for a certain well-known Liverpool quartet...
Thomson did it on familiar ground: England's Royal Birkdale golf course, 7,037 yds. of sand, gorse, bracken and narrow fairways that twist like green ribbons around the bleak coast of Liverpool Bay. It was at Royal Birkdale that Thomson won his first British Open in 1954-when Arnold Palmer was still an amateur and Jack Nicklaus was in junior high school. Palmer was there last week, gunning for his third British Open with a brand-new putter and the happy air of a man who has given up trying to give up smoking. So was Nicklaus, grimly...
...line for the cities' already desperately overcrowded public housing, barred from private apartments and boardinghouses by "No Colored" signs, and forced to pay rates of up to 10% on mortgages for private houses. The dark million cluster in overcrowded, rundown Victorian neighborhoods in and around London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield and Bradford, where they sometimes make up 20% or 30% of the population. In London districts marked by proper English names such as Blenheim Crescent or Henry Dickens Court, the air reeks with curry and saris crowd the pavements, while other alleys are lined with Moslem butcher shops, Urdu...