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...Liverpool convalescent home last week death came to a trim little Briton named Alfred Charles Nunez Arnold, who had apparently lived 112 years. Alfred Arnold could never prove his age. There were no such things as birth certificates when he was born. He himself admitted that the only evidence he had was a book an uncle had inscribed to him "on his twelfth birthday, Nov. 9, 1840." But people who knew Alfred Arnold never questioned this evidence. For one thing, Alfred Arnold never tried to capitalize on his age. He had much else to do. His life was as full...
Edward Jones is a blond-haired native of Liverpool who ran away from home when he was 16. He wandered about Liverpool and Plymouth until he had passed the minimum age requirement to join the Marines and just after his 18th birthday signed up in his Majesty's service. After a time in barracks he was stationed aboard the "Newcastle" after the outbreak of war and has remained there ever since...
Synthetic photosynthesis. Another attack on this problem is described in a recent book, Photosynthesis (Van Nostrand; $4.75), by Edward Charles Cyril Baly, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of Liverpool...
Considered as a step toward hemispheric self-sufficiency, the rest of the tin deal was the rest of a fiasco. Patiño's companies are interlocked with the British-Dutch cartel, and he controls a smelter in Liverpool. His ore has always been smelted there, crossing the Atlantic twice before it gets to the U.S. After prolonged negotiations, Jesse Jones contracted with a Dutch firm to smelt Bolivian ore in Texas-with a Dutch East Indian ore admixture, which keeps U.S. tin technology tied to the Far East. To feed the Texas smelter he secured less than half...
Died. Mary Lawson, 30, British stage and cinemactress, onetime fiancee of Tennis Player Fred Perry; and her producer-husband, F. W. L. C. Beaumont; bombed; in Liverpool...