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...Clapham's Gone!" Before the day, it had looked like a routine county council election. Laborite politicos were confident that victory was in the bag. Three years before, Labor had won 90 council seats out of 124, the Conservatives only 30. As the day wore on, party headquarters in Transport House began to worry. Worry soon turned into panic. By 4 p.m., Labor ran one seat ahead of the Conservatives. Only South London's staunchly Socialist Clapham had not been heard from. At 4:01 the phone rang. The party worker who answered it turned pale. "Clapham...
...Hugh Linstead in a letter to the Times next day: "Have we now reached the stage when no one in authority dare say 'carry on' if a meteorologist says it is going to rain?" Brigade HQ countered apologetically: "There were storms-there was a cloudburst over Clapham Junction [four miles away]." Britons felt cheated. Blimped the father of one subaltern: "Dammit, the Guards never run-nor do their uniforms...
Along the twisting horse-&-buggy roads through London's suburbs, sleek patrician Bentleys elbowed war-weary jalopies aside oh the way to the track. Charabancs full of cheering trippers from Clapham Common and Edgeware overtook lumbering six-horsed coaches complete with liveried postilions and grey-toppered gentry...
London papers did not mention the fact, but dried eggs and the British loan are closely related. Britons need the $3.75 billion U.S. credit in order to buy food, raw materials and machinery during the next five years of reconstruction. But neither their leaders nor the man on the Clapham omnibus, however much their nation needed the dollars, liked the terms on which it got them.. Those at the top did not want to face an uncertain free-trade future. Arch-Imperialist Robert Boothby had orated in the Commons debate: ". . . One mandate which His Majesty's Government never...
...snorting burlesque known as U.S. professional wrestling has developed a new kind of hokum called Australian Tag. Introduced in the Midwest this winter by Chicago Promoter Fred Kohler-who heard about it from Wrestling Referee Sam Clapham, onetime light-heavyweight champion of Australia-tag wrestling is just the old burlesque doubled. Instead of two-man foolery, each comedian inside the ropes has a partner just outside. When the insider appears to need relief, he can get it by struggling over to the ropes and tagging his partner. According to the rules, only two men are permitted in a ring...