Word: swansea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large man, but he fills the brooding gothic gloom of the Near North Side church with his resounding voice, as the late Dylan Thomas might if he were reading Yeats, or Richard Burton would if playing Hamlet. Like the poet Thomas, Davies grew up in Swansea, Wales. He claims that Burton patterned his style on Welsh preachers, the only regular actors on display during his youth...
...skull was stolen from Swedenborg's London grave, 44 years after his 1772 burial, by a retired sea captain infatuated with phrenology. It was bought a century later at an antique shop in Swansea, Wales, by the family whose heirs sold it off last week. Swedenborgians protested the sale of stolen property, but are relieved that the skull is returning to Sweden, where the rest of the founder's body now lies...
Ferris is more interested in transforming Dylan Thomas from a literary gossip item into a case history of arrested adolescence. He has supplemented the story of the Swansea son of an overattentive mother and dissapointed schoolteacher father with some fresh evidence. A former baby sitter recalls the child Dylan as "an absolute tartar, an appalling boy." At twelve, he plagiarized a poem and had it published in the Cardiff Western Mail As a young reporter in Swansea, Thomas developed his heavy drinking habits for, Ferris suggests, "the pleasure of being rescued afterwards." He was obsessed with fears of sexual inferiority...
...Said Toastmaster Thurgood Marshall, the first black man to sit on the Supreme Court: "The world is a whole lot better for what you have done, so the only toast is just 'Thank you, Roy.' " . . . It was "roll 'em" time on the Young Winston set at Swansea, and the place was crawling with make-believe Churchills. There was Simon Ward, 28, playing Winston the war correspondent, Michael Audreson, 14, portraying Churchill as a schoolboy, and Anne Bancroft in the role of Winston's mother, Jennie. Suddenly by the sheerest coincidence some real McCoys showed up: Member...
...generations the quick, routine swipe with an antiseptic swab has been the accepted procedure before every medical injection. But is it necessary, or even effective? Neither, says Dr. Thomas Charles Dann, medical officer of the University College of Swansea in Wales. The usual, perfunctory five-second swabbing of the skin is far too brief for any of the antiseptics used to sterilize the area. As proof that this "routine rub is rubbish," Dann reports in the Lancet that more than 5,000 injections have been given in the past six years at the Swansea medical center without the preshot cleansing...