Word: london
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Milk v. the Cream. Hard as they pounded at their pension scheme, the Laborites still sorely needed a major issue to stir an emotional response to their cry: "Are you getting your share of the prosperity?" They thought they had one as London newspapers suddenly began to blaze with headlines about the strange stock machinations of one Harry Jasper and the 450-odd "companies" of which he is a director. On the London stock exchange, dealings in $55 million worth of securities associated with Jasper's name were summarily suspended; day after day scores of worried investors clustered outside...
...nine days the murder trial of Berlin-born Gunther Fritz Podola, 30, was postponed while a London jury considered a plea the like of which had never before been heard in an English court of law (TIME, Sept. 21). The plea: in "the very severe fright" caused by the violence of his arrest, Podola had lost his memory, and so was unfit to plead to the charge of shooting a London cop. Last week, after a procession of experts had offered conflicting medical opinion on whether Podola was, in fact, suffering from "hysterical amnesia," the jury finally decided that...
...Spitfires and Hurricanes, which day after nightmare day in the summer and autumn of 1940 rose up to defy the waves of German bombers boring in on Britain. And ever since the war, on the third Sunday in September, Britain has commemorated The Few with an R.A.F. flypast over London. Traditionally, one Spitfire and one Hurricane have led the way for a formation of the modern jets that have replaced them...
Last week, regretfully judged too old and unsafe for future Septembers, the proud old fighters purred peacefully over London for the last time. Hardly had Spitfire Sugar Love 574 passed out of sight of the nostalgic crowd on the Horse Guards Parade when its engine began to cough and sputter. Losing altitude rapidly, the pilot, Air Vice Marshal Harold John Maguire, spotted a green and empty sports field and prepared to belly-land on it. As the Oxo and Old Hollingtonian cricket teams, which had just retired to the pavilion for their half-time tea, watched in amazement, the stricken...
...months, and suddenly he is the most sought-after man in town. A U.S. Army major (Gary Merrill) wants him to help form joint U.S.-Mexican battalions to go after the Apaches, the Texas Rangers want to give him a job, and the major's estranged wife (Julie London) just wants him. Mitchum begs her not to seduce him and hurt his opportunity for a new life. Before she has a chance, Mitchum kills another villain and nervously flees to Mexico for the second time...