Word: southampton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five years after the Martin 130, Trippe got his famed Boeing 314 flying boats, and the British were still not ready to fly the Atlantic. But when he got rights to land at Lisbon and Marseille, they wearily told him he might as well come along to Southampton...
Pancho Gonzales, 20, was not good enough last summer to make the U.S. Davis Cup team. He had won only one worthwhile tennis tournament (at Southampton). Then Pancho stalked into Forest Hills in September and pulled off one of the biggest upsets in tennis history, to become National Amateur champion. Last week, when the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association made public its rankings for 1948, Pancho's name topped the list...
...Southgate, near London, a queue of expectant voters lining up for a local election wound up at a fish & chips stand instead of the polling booth. At Southampton, the Queen Elizabeth, free at last of the dockers' strike and loaded with 1,600 passengers itching to be on the go, was unable to cast her moorings. Parisians could see scarcely 30 yards ahead. In Berlin the airlift was halted for 15 hours, and in Denmark harbors, fishing smacks rolled blindly and helplessly at anchor. Even in London's deep Underground last week there were wispy traces...
Signature. In Southampton, England, police explained to the judge how they tracked down Drugstore Burglar Martin Hanley: he left some self-addressed letters and his identity card in the rifled cash register...
...Southampton, N.Y., Constance Murray, 19, blonde debutante granddaughter of the late millionaire Inventor Thomas E. Murray (she is also a sister of Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt and a cousin of Mrs. Henry Ford II),* had thought things out and come to a major decision. Renouncing worldly goods (her grandfather left $10,000,000) and worldly pleasures (a Manhattan debut last winter and a two-month tour of Europe this summer), she announced that on Sept. 15 she would enter the Convent of the Holy Child, Sharon Hill, Pa., to become...