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Britain's biggest (96 players) and best-known orchestra, the BBC Symphony, last week got its first new conductor in 20 years. The new man, who will replace retiring Sir Adrian Boult this summer: handsome, popular Sir Malcolm Sargent, 55, until 1948 founder-conductor of the Liverpool Philharmonic...
...story of the death by drowning of the Welsh village of Dolwyn, in the last years of the 19th century. Dolwyn is a completely rural community, caught in the gears of the Industrial Revolution. As part of a plan to supply water to the growing city of Liverpool, the Lord of Lancashire intends to flood the valley of Dolwyn, thus causing the destruction of the ancient village...
...Iron Cage. Ever since he came down from Oxford's Brasenose College to become a curate in Liverpool eleven years ago, the Rev. Marcus Morris has been trying to bring religion closer to life in just such unorthodox fashion. At first some parishioners were not entirely pleased to find their curate turning up regularly at pubs and cocktail parties, but Morris kept on trying to break down what he calls "the iron cage between the clergy and the people." In the pubs there was also a certain coolness. "But as soon as I convinced them that I came...
...postnatal slap. He was the first-born of five children-of Arthur Hanbury Godfrey and the former Kathryn Morton of Ossining, N.Y. Father Godfrey, a freelance writer and expert on horseflesh, claimed to be the son of Sir John Godfrey, onetime Viceroy of India and scion of a wealthy Liverpool brewing family. Arthur recalls that his father was "a raconteur and a gentleman full of old-school aristocratic thinking. Therefore, in business, he stunk." Since none of the ancestral glories have proved verifiable, Arthur now suspects that his father embroidered them to 'compensate for his financial failure...
...third day Violet was up again bright & early to drive more miles. Once during the day, she hoisted herself on an open truck while an audience of electrical workers sang "For he's a jolly good fellow" to her husband. On the Attlees drove to Manchester, Liverpool, Bolton, Lancaster and across the Scottish border to Kilmarnock where heavy snow made the going rough...