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...dressing for a cocktail party on the Sedov last Sunday when he heard a news report about the ship's food shortage. That night on the boat, he invited the crew to come to Harvard for a meal, but they asked for provisions for their journey to Liverpool, England, instead...
Though Barbara Cartland has just written a new romantic novel, The Kaiser's Ball, not all is pure and Aryan in popular culture. A newspaper critic complains about the "pernicious Negroid wailings" of an unnamed group of young Englishmen from Liverpool who are playing to packed audiences of German youths in Hamburg. But Adolf Hitler is still hale, for a man of 75; and in the U.S., President Joseph Kennedy, also 75, is planning a state visit to Berlin to quiet rumors of supposed Nazi human-rights violations against Jews during the war. His trip will make clear the solidly...
...interested in looking back now because I have this misbelief about my life. Did I really get here?" he asks while munching on a cheese-and-pickle sandwich. He stares out at a view of rolling green hills that is a long way from the council housing of his Liverpool youth. "I hear myself telling stories to my kids, and sometimes I ask myself, 'Are you sure about this...
...trumpeter and piano man, his mother a midwife. As a child, McCartney was a Boy Scout and a bird watcher. His first real instrument was a Zenith six-string, which he played left-handed. In 1960 he was just one of four unknown teenagers performing in the squalor of Liverpool's underground Cavern club. By 1965 the Beatles had stormed America, met the Queen and been hailed as pop prophets. By 1971 -- before any of the four hit 30 -- it was all over, ruined by a bitter business fight...
Although he rarely goes to Liverpool today, McCartney is lead patron of a fund-raising effort to turn his old school, Liverpool Institute, into a Fame- type training ground for the musically talented. When the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic asked him to help mark its 150th anniversary, he ventured into classical music and composed a 90-minute choral epic called Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio. It was a brave try for a man who doesn't read or write music. But it turned out to be strangely flat, a criticism that McCartney shrugs off. He was more worried that rock friends...