Word: england
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GAMBLING: The Church of England "has never declared that betting and gambling are ecclesiastical crimes." Dr. Fisher came out in favor of the government's new bill to legalize off-track betting as a way to control a "grave social evil." But, he added, this does not mean the church is "saying that betting and gaming are good things. They...
Adultery should be a criminal offense, the Archbishop of Canterbury told the Canterbury Diocesan Conference in London last week. Although it is a "private act" and has never been a legal crime in England,-Dr. Fisher felt that because of the "tremendous damage" it causes in terms of broken homes and unhappy children, adultery should be punishable by more than mere church censure...
Allegretto. In West Hartlepool, England, Bandmaster Robert Davies paid his fine for speeding, explained: "I was humming one of Liszt's rhapsodies. During one of the quickening passages, I must have unconsciously pressed the accelerator, thereby increasing the tempo of the engine to the tempo of the music...
Ever since. Reporter Brennan has wondered if Factor was really kidnaped, or if his story was a hoax, aimed at taking the pressure off him elsewhere (Factor was wanted at the time in England on a swindling charge). Brennan also wondered-along with a lot of other newsmen and a good many Chicago cops-if Illinois Gangster Roger Touhy, convicted of kidnaping and sentenced to 99 years in prison after being identified by Factor as one of his abductors, had not, in fact, been framed...
...register listening to the merry whack of belt on flesh, is an old friend from the first novel. So is Heroine Allison Mac-Kenzie, the girl author who writes by day and wrongs by night. Like Author Metalious, she produces a bestseller about a meretricious little New England town, and is all but drummed out of it by indignant neighbors. Her fatherly old publisher comforts her in the best way he knows how, and he certainly knows how. Does Allison love happily ever after? Of course not; an auto accident puts the publisher out of print and Allison into...