Word: liverpool
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...Melvin Purvis cornered Bank Robber Charles ("Pretty Boy") Floyd in a farmhouse near East Liverpool, Ohio. When Floyd, armed with two .45-cal. pistols, fled across a stubbled cornfield toward the woods, Purvis and his men shot him to death. It was one of the most celebrated exploits of the G-men, forerunners of the present-day FBI agents, and enhanced Purvis' reputation as one of the country's ablest crime fighters. The story of Floyd's death stood unchallenged for almost 45 years...
Skeptics think McMullen has at the least exaggerated portions of his tale to help peddle an eventual book. But it is indisputable that the British want him extradited for the bombing of a barracks near Liverpool. A San Francisco federal magistrate turned down the request on the ground that the bombing was a "political" act. U.S. authorities are now trying to deport him, and McMullen presumably will surface in San Francisco on Sept. 28 for a hearing...
Black plastic bags of garbage piled up in minimountains on the sidewalks of London last week. Birmingham's major hospitals sent most of their patients home, reserving treatment only for emergency cases and the critically ill. In Liverpool, authorities were debating whether it would be necessary to bury bodies at sea, since local gravediggers refused to work...
...world.* Its vaulting (175 ft. high under the tower) is higher than any other, its length (619 ft.) second only to St. Peter's in Rome. Work on the cathedral continued through two world wars and a depression. During the blitz of 1940, King George VI came to Liverpool and told church officials: "Keep on with the work, if only in a small way. Refuse to be beaten." Work continued even after bombs damaged the walls and blew out several windows of the completed Lady Chapel. The pounds of merchant benefactors and the pence of a devoted public paid...
Patey concedes that Liverpool's Cathedral was built only because it was started long ago: to launch a similar project now "would not fit the mood of the church today." But, he adds, "we have here in the work of stonemasons, stained glass artists, carpenters, sculptors, organ builders, metal workers, clear evidence that in an age which too easily tolerates the shoddy and second-rate, we can find craftsmen who can match any who have gone before. I'm glad that Merseyside has actually completed one of the great buildings of the world in a century...