Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago 64-year-old James Forbes Whiteford, a U.S. consulting engineer, got the bad news after an operation in London: he was dying of cancer. Whiteford began to live from day to day. He refused a job with the Ministry of Supply, sold his property in Britain, returned to the U.S. to die. Later the same year, Whiteford underwent another operation at Manhattan's Memorial Hospital, was told there was no sign of cancer. He gained weight, felt fine, began writing a book about his postponed date with death...
Last week in London, 70-year-old Whiteford sued his British surgeon and physician for ?9,000 because he had not yet died...
...first-rate record of the Olympics is concerned, Rank's monopoly of the shooting may be all to the good. Only thus, perhaps, with all cameras under single control, will it be possible to do for the London games what Leni Riefenstahl did for Berlin...
...highlighting the athletes of a different nation and each in the language of that nation. (Red Barber, Ted Husing and Bill Stern will handle the American language.) The Games end Aug. 14; the world premiere of Rank's XIV Olympiad-The Glory of Sport will be held in London's West End on Sept...
Died. Ralph D. Blumenfeld, 84, Wisconsin-born, British-naturalized editor of the London Daily Express (1902-1932); in Dunmow, Essex. Blumenfeld joined the Daily Express when its circulation was 250,000, helped raise it to more than 2,000,000, and won the sobriquet, "Father of Fleet Street," before he retired...