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...moment it landed in Liverpool, Paul J. Tusek's 1906-model Stanley Steamer turned the first Anglo-American Vintage Car Rally into a private competition with calamity. Like most antique cars, the "Stanley Gentlemen's Speedy Roadster" showed some stubborn and u predictable quirks. Its temperamental burners, which require a mixture of kerosene and gasoline, could not stomach the English brands. Its pilot light went out, steam pressure dropped, and the boiler filled with the fumes of unburned fuel. Tusek (an ex-paratrooper) tried to light things up again, but touched off an explosion that flashed flames...
Lord Russell of Liverpool, Britain's Assistant Judge Advocate General, is a World War I hero (he won the Military Cross three times) who served as senior legal adviser at the British army's war crimes trials. Ever since, Russell has been convinced that the West is too quickly forgetting Belsen and Buchenwald. In 1951 Russell was sacked from his post as Deputy Judge Advocate General to the British Army of the Rhine after he and Lady Russell tried to drive their car through a procession of German villagers, and got manhandled in the attempt. Shortly afterwards Lord...
Britain's butterfly-light (100 Ibs.) Ballerina Alicia Marlcova, who was recently barred from dancing in Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall because "she might damage the delicate machinery under the stage," arrived in Liverpool and pirouetted on more solid boards. Scene of her performance: Liverpool's boxing stadium...
...after three semesters for what was described as ''incontrollable high spirits." Bogart, 18, was unwilling to face his family. He hustled off to a recruiting ship and joined the Navy. He ended up on troopships and spent most of World War I shuttling between New York and Liverpool as a helmsman aboard the captured liner Leviathan. Meanwhile, the family money was dwindling away as the result of father's optimistic but ill-conceived instinct for investment...
Finally, fully a year after his original application, the Liverpool consul summoned him for an interview. During the questioning, he was asked about an appearance before the Free German League of Culture. According to Bruce: "'During the conversation on this subject,' the professor says, 'the vice-consul expressed uneasiness when I said that, while I had no idea that the (League) was a Communist organization, I would still have addressed them if I had known it. It appears that in his view, trying to convert them would have been a subversive activity!'" Polyani's speech before the group was severely...