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...Watlington Flyer is a friendly little train that chuffs the nine branch-line miles between Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire and Watlington in Oxfordshire. Just one coach and an ancient engine, it sometimes waits for regular customers, has been known to back up for panting latecomers. One day the Flyer's fireman, Anthony Benham, 22, tooted the train's whistle at pretty Janet Croxford, 19; in due course Anthony asked for twelve days off to marry Janet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Proper Joke | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

Died. Alfred G. Gardiner, 80, author of trenchant political analyses and humorous homilies (under the pen name: "Alpha of the Plough"), longtime editor of London's now-defunct Daily News; at Princes Risborough, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 11, 1946 | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

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