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Rattle of a Simple Man, by Charles Dyer. Percy is a Manchester clerk who has been almost immunized against sex by devotion to "moovies," to darts with the "jolly laads," to everlasting "wurrrk," and most of all to "Mum." But a beery night's fling in London puts him within communicable range of the dread disease. Cyrenne is a nightclub tart with eyes as impersonal as jelly beans, and a tendency to strip to a small black egg-cup bra in the twinkling of a false eyelash. The question of the evening: Will the parochial bumpkin, who admits...
...year-old law known as the Truck Act from paying its workers in anything but "current coin of the realm," British industry every Friday has been forking over 15 million little brown packets of pounds, shillings and pence to 60% of the labor force. Friday evening, Mum gets her share. Friday night, pubs, cinemas and dog tracks get .theirs. Saturday morning, tradesmen get theirs. Unfortunately, stickup men usually take theirs early on Friday, and robbers in London alone last year made off with $700,000 worth of lolly. Alarmed by the rising robbery rate throughout Britain, as, bank trucks roam...
...London Daily Sketch. But first London's High Court gave him ten days to change his mind about whether to reveal his source for a news story about a British spy, and thus purge himself of contempt of court. The Sketch's man stubbornly kept mum, but last week, and at the last minute, the source himself stepped forward...
Much more was involved in Clough's six-month sentence than a reporter's simple insistence on keeping mum. Clough's story said that the Red trawlers had come snooping because of secrets sold to Russia by John Vassall, a clerk in the British Admiralty and a known homosexual. One of the more scandalous episodes in British officialdom, the Vassall affair did not end with the Admiralty clerk's imprisonment (TIME, Nov. 2). British press stories sparked the official inquiry that nabbed Clough. How could the papers have been so knowing without leaks from the Admiralty...
...avail. The gray old Tower of London has become a Chamber of Horrors, and this merryman has been rendered moping mum...