Word: nottingham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...First? In Nottingham. England, Prison Commissioner Duncan Fairn complained that girls who wait outside infamous Dartmoor Prison to see prisoners are giving the place a bad name...
...Christian people, stop the war," proclaimed a banner at a Free Church Federal Council protest rally in Nottingham. A delegation of British church leaders called at 10 Downing Street, voiced the "deep concern of Christian opinion," and urged a cease-fire (Anthony Eden was too busy to see them). Dr. Donald Soper, fire-eating British Methodist leader who urged refusal to fight, led a protest march through London's West End. Anglican Father Trevor Huddleston, famed for his fight against apartheid in South Africa, called for even stronger condemnation by the churches: "Unless this is done, once again...
Dark Victory. In Nottingham, England, after attending the local movie house three times a week for 45 years, where she was wooed and won by two husbands in the same spot, Mrs. Mary Bettson was offered the seats as a "sentimental token," turned them down, explained: "My present husband and I have pretty well worn them...
Died. John Campbell Boot, 67, second Baron Trent of Nottingham, longtime (1926-54) head of Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd., the vast (more than 1.300 shops in Great Britain) British drugstore chain founded by his father; in St. Lawrence, island of Jersey...
What the rescuers of the Nottingham's crew take off Boon Island after nearly a month is ten scarecrows who are close to sub-humanity. But Novelist Roberts is getting at something beyond a gruesome record of man's ingenuity and toughness. Look at Captain Dean, and Swede and Neal and Miles, he says. What did they have that brought them so close to nobility, when most men would have cracked? Character and more character. Just as the malingerers and whiners were bound to take it lying down because character is what they never had. Perhaps...