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...Peppery Yorkshireman Clarence Henry Willcock, 55, had no intention of making himself a cause célébre. He was simply fed up. When a burly constable armed with all the majesty of entrenched bureaucracy stopped him for speeding in a London suburb last year, Harry's reflexes crystallized. "All right, now," Police Constable Muckle told Harry, when he pulled to a stop, "let's see your identity card." Since the first days of World War II, all Britons have been required to carry identity cards and produce them on demand, but Harry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Individualist | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

Both kinds will get plenty of chance to hear him. At 40, Yorkshireman Kell has come to the U.S. to stay. Says he: "All I could see ahead over there was the same old sort of thing. I thought I'd get out a bit and see what America might offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Respectable Rabbit | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...international labor get-together in Oslo, British Guest Mark Hewitson, M.P. for Hull, recalled some of the bonds between Norway and Britain. "As Ah look around your coontry," said Yorkshireman Hewitson",'"Ah see a whole lot o' things that recall the visits which your Viking ancestors made to ma coontry many centuries ago. And y' know a lot o' your lads -refugees like-came over to us during t' war. Naow, Ah'm a dalesman (living in England's northern valleys) masen. Ah believe that Ah've got a whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: Thicker than Bluid | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...Yorkshireman Rank went imperturbably on with his plans. He expected to complete the Odeon-G.C.F. merger this week by voting the 90% of Odeon common stock that he and his friends control. Said Rank: "My shareholders have the greatest confidence in me. . . . After all, why should they complain? When I took over Odeon, the five-shilling common shares were worth four shillings only. Now they are worth 40 shillings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: A Look at the Books | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...Monte Carlo veterans still reminisce about a legendary mechanic known as "Jaggers the Yorkshireman," who charted the weaknesses of the Casino's wheels, reportedly cleaned up $500,000 before the operators reset the wheels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Applied Mathematics | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

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