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...Luck. In Nottingham, England, after stealing a porcelain Japanese luck charm from the house they were painting, Artisans Harry James and Douglas Harding took it to a nearby antique shop for appraisal, were arrested when the dealer turned out to be the home owner and theft victim...
...Nottingham tanner, 31-year-old Author Sillitoe left school at 14 to work in factories, turned to writing during the war while serving as an R.A.F. radio operator in Malaya. Far from being one of Britain's heavily intellectual Angry Young Men, Sillitoe is extremely matter of fact in his recital of the war between the two nations. The blokes he writes about may have been "put inside" for anything from arson to stealing cars, from burglary to grabbing passing women and "trying to give them what...
...Merry Men. In London, TV Star Alan Wheatley, who plays the villainous sheriff of Nottingham on the Robin Hood show, complained: "Children climb trees around my house and fire arrows at me as I walk in the garden...
...Nottingham undergraduate who shook 9,001 hands in the town square, breaking Theodore Roosevelt's record of 8,513 established at a White House reception...
...break with insane traditions fostered by the supposedly sane came around midcentury, was pioneered by Dr. Duncan Macmillan at Mapperley Hospital in Nottingham, in England's Midlands. His program was virtually duplicated by Drs. Thomas P. Rees and Maxwell Jones at two hospitals in London suburbs...