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Adventures at Night. At the age of eight. George had an obvious talent-and a curiously gruesome way of developing it. The son of a Liverpool leather dresser, young Stubbs would borrow human bones from a physician in the neighborhood and take them home to sketch. By the time he was 22, he was a lecturer on anatomy in York, and one account delicately hints that he was a body snatcher ("A hundred times he ran into such adventures at night as would subject anyone with less honorable motives to the greatest severity...
...fresh-faced Mabel Anderson is still unmarried, but by custom she is always to be addressed as "Mrs." in her job at Buckingham Palace. The daughter of a Liverpool policeman who was killed in the blitz, she first appeared on the national scene when Prince Charles was in need of an assistant nurse. She turned out to be the only applicant who was "not shaking with nerves." This week Mrs. Anderson officially rises another notch-as fulltime "nanny" to the still-unnamed prince born to Queen Elizabeth II a month...
Dozens of girls were picked up in railroad stations with the sweet-little-old-lady routine. Immigrant girls from Ireland were scooped up in Liverpool, where they were met at the boat by procuresses dressed as Sisters of Mercy. Better-class girls were taken in by proper-sounding newspaper advertisements. Even upper-class children were not safe. Procuresses of good education proposed themselves as governesses and then abducted the children in their charge. The younger the victim and the higher her station, the better the price she brought. A teen-age girl of the working class was worth no more...
...green & pleasant land" of 150 years ago has been transformed into latter-day Poet John Betjeman's "dear old, bloody old England of telegraph poles and tin." All told, more than 40% of the British population lives in seven monstrous conurbations surrounding London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle and Glasgow...
...Malcolm Sargent produces a package (Elsie Morison, Marjorie Thomas, Richard Lewis, James Milligan; the Huddersfield Choral Society; the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; Angel, 3 LPs, mono and stereo) that lacks the fire of Beecham, the vocal glories of some of the Ormandy passages, emerges as painstaking rather than impassioned. Perhaps the best performance of the crop is furnished by Hermann Scherchen (Pierrette Alarie, Nan Merriman, Leopold Simoneau, Richard Standen; the Vienna State Opera Orchestra and the Vienna Academy Chorus; Westminster, 4 LPs, stereo), which is marked by some lovely, light-textured choral passages, a translucent orchestral sound and a movingly...