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...momentarily, but five laps later he had it back. The heat and the grind began to take their toll. Cars broke down, and seven swerved into spectacular accidents in which no one was seriously hurt. Worn-out drivers turned their cars over to relief men. After 70 laps Carl Scarborough, 38, dropped out. Later that day, he died of heat exhaustion...
...weeks ago Aneurin Bevan did his best to persuade a rabidly divided Labor Party conference at Morecambe that the U.S. was deliberately goading Britain into war and bankruptcy (TIME, Oct. 13). Last week, at the Yorkshire beach resort Scarborough, Winston Churchill assured a conference of 5,000 Conservatives that "the foundation of [British] foreign policy is a true and honorable comradeship with the United States...
Another Lie. In high good humor because his colt Prince Arthur had just paid 20 to 1 at Lingfield Park, Winston Churchill arrived in Scarborough on the next to last day of the conference. A huge crowd was waiting to meet him at the station. Churchill left his wife in the car sent to meet him, and on foot slogged along happily in the crowd's midst for half a mile. "What was it they promised if a Conservative government was elected?" he asked his fellow Tories. "War. Churchill the warmonger would plunge us into war. Well...
...Stonyhurst College, Charles landed a part in a school play. His first press notice read, in its entirety: "We hope to see some more of Mr. Laughton." Others hoped to see less. A Scarborough neighbor described the adolescent Charles: "He was one of the most ungainly schoolboys I ever saw, very fat, with a huge head, and a little cap. We should dearly have liked to have kicked...
...managed to see Chu-Chin-Chow 13 times. In World War I, Laughton was a private by choice ("Something told me I might not be the kind of fellow to take command of men under fire"), was gassed and invalided home. He spent the next five years in Scarborough, ostensibly working in his family's hotel; actually, he was hanging about amateur theatricals. His persistence paid off. His family gave in, and made him a small allowance. Charles went to London again and enrolled in the Royal Academy of Dramatic...