Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bill went right on collecting more & more letters and affidavits. One day last summer he took the train to London and charged straight into Britain's Judge Advocate General's office. "I had no appointment," he recalls, "but they let me in. They were very nice to me, and they listened." Slowly and ponderously the machinery of justice began to roll, and last fortnight Torturers Kinoshita and Yoshida heard their sentences before a British court: life imprisonment for the former, twelve years for the latter...
...palette gleamed with beads of colour; fair and white rose the canvas; the empty brush hung poised, heavy with destiny, irresolute in the air . . ." Winston Churchill had just sat down, at 43, to paint his first oil. In a jolly essay entitled "Painting as a Pastime" and published in London last week, the great statesman described where his hobby had led him. Actually the essay had first appeared in 1932 as two chapters in a little-read book called Amid These Storms: Thoughts and Adventures; but Churchill had then been in eclipse-the same kind of eclipse...
...spectacle in London's Harringay Arena made one loyal boxing fan shudder and say: "From now on, wrestling will be my hobby." In the third round, New Jersey's Lee Savold had popped glass-chinned Bruce Woodcock on his glass chin. Down went Brucie. In the fourth round, Savold popped him again with a low body blow. Woodcock, collapsing like a damp dishrag, lay moaning & groaning on the floor. Some of the sportwriters were reminded of a countryman of his, "Fainting Phil" Scott, who had made an art of collapsing, back in the late...
...referee disqualified Savold for fouling and declared Woodcock the winner. Wrote a London Daily Express reporter: "It was certainly a moral win for the American. And don't accuse me of being anti-British. For most of the 10,500 fans who booed Woodcock from the ring after his unhappy victory would support this judgment...
...weeks after the prince was born (TIME, Nov. 22), London editors realized that they were getting a royal runaround. They guessed that the baby was being given daily airings in the palace grounds. So photographers reconnoitered the streets around "Buck House," looking for a high point from which to shoot over the iron fence and bushes into the grounds. Along Grosvenor Place, which overlooks the grounds, they ran into a snag: leases on the houses there, owned by the Duke of Westminster, prohibit tenants from creating any nuisance for their royal neighbors, so tenants were timid about cameramen...