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Britons are given to labeling themselves with strange-sounding titles indicative of their respective towns, viz.: Oxford, Oxonian; Cambridge, Cantabrigian, which are the most famous. There are others throughout Great Britain, often piquant and quaint, like Liverpool, Liverpudlian; Blackpool, Blackpudlian, and perhaps best of all Giggleswick, Giggleswicket...
Barbara Simonds, 25, is an attractive brunette; she is also an M.D., now interning at Britain's Liverpool Royal Infirmary. Her first husband, an R.A.F. flyer, was shot down over France in 1943. Her second husband was killed at Arnhem...
...Huddersfield Choir and Liverpool Philharmonic, conducted by the composer; Victor; 10 sides). Composer Walton's barbaric, explosive Old-Testament oratorio (words arranged by Osbert Sitwell) is probably the most important British score in a generation. Performance and recording: excellent...
...time: four days after Minden Day, 1944. A British battalion had bogged down at a small stream footing the mount. Small groups tried to rush the bridge. Each time they were mowed down. The battalion's lieutenant colonel was 30-year-old John Child Pearson of Blundellsland (near Liverpool), who sported the wide mustache that Sandhurst's young graduates affect. Somewhere he found a rose, and pinned it to his blouse. He stepped out, jauntily swinging his swagger stick, as casually as if he were taking a Sunday stroll in the country. He strode down the middle...
...last week Prince Neale had a right royal headache. To a reporter the Dublin prince-presumptive confided: "My wife, a Liverpool woman, is a bit shy about using the title of Princess. . . ." He added thoughtfully: "Anyone who does not call me Prince will be ignored...