Word: liverpool
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Thus last week in a courtroom in Chester, 16 miles south of Liverpool, ended the 14-day trial of the lean stock clerk and his blonde girl friend. They had been charged with killing 17-year-old Edward Evans and two children whose bodies they buried in shallow graves on the moors near Manchester. For the prosecution, Britain's Attorney General Sir Elwyn Jones called 40 witnesses to the stand. The killings were all marked by what Sir Elwyn called "a perverted sexual element." The defendants, he charged, took special care to preserve mementos of the crimes...
...trial began last week in the town of Chester, 16 miles south of Liverpool, two unusual scenes in the courtroom signaled its high importance. For one, Britain's Attorney General, the country's highest law officer, who normally prosecutes only major espionage cases, was on hand to try a criminal case. For another, a newly erected shield of bullet-resistant glass surrounded the prisoners' dock. Behind the glass sat the defendants: Ian Brady, 28, a skinny stock clerk, and his blonde mistress, Myra Hindley, 23, a shorthand typist. Both pleaded not guilty to the charge of murdering...
...Seekers. Others breeze in from the coal-mining North Country. There are bluff Yorkshiremen like the P.M. or Actor Peter O'Toole, Albert Finney from Manchester, Playwright Shelagh Delaney, who wrote A Taste of Honey in Salford at the age of 18, and Rita Tushingham, 24, a onetime Liverpool typist who played the lead in the 1961 movie. And, of course, Liverpool also produced the four ingenuous teen-agers whose Mersey beat has circled the world, earned them a group fortune that now stands at $6,000,000 and won them medals from Queen Elizabeth...
Wilson carried his own constituency of Huyton, a working-class suburb of Liverpool, by 20,940 votes. Of all the Labor victories, the happiest belonged to Patrick Gordon Walker, whom Wilson had appointed Foreign Secretary in his first Cabinet. But Gordon Walker lost in 1964 in a campaign marred by racism in the Midland town of Smethwick, then lost a "safe" by-election at Leyton last year and had to step down. This time Gordon Walker won Leyton handily, will probably be rewarded with a Cabinet post-perhaps as the minister to explore the possibilities of Britain's entry...
...record enough of those troubles -neglect, poverty, manuscripts lost or burned-to make paranoiacs of 50 poets. Lowry first appears as "a small boy chased by furies." He strummed a guitar in dives, "ran away to sea," and the last thing he did to please his bewildered father, a Liverpool cotton broker who fox-hunted, was to graduate (third-class honors) in English from Cambridge. Years of wandering as a merchant seaman, a marriage in Paris, and a minor novel (Ultramarine, a Melville-and-blue-water affair) lay ahead before he fetched up in Mexico on a midget paternal subsidy...