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DIED. REG SMYTHE, 80, industrious British cartoonist who sketched the ne'er-do-well Andy Capp for more than 40 years; in Hartlepool, England. It was a comic strip sprung from the heart: Smythe patterned the beer-guzzling, bumptious bloke and his long-suffering wife Flo on his parents. Although Capp spoke in the vernacular of working-class northern England, his chatter had universal appeal, enlivening the funny pages in dozens of countries...
...wanted to woo Northern English readers with a new comic strip set in that grimy part of the island, and Freelance Artist Reginald Smythe just happened to be available for the job. Smythe had grown up in the north of England, in an industrial blight called Hartlepool, hard by the River Tees; although he had escaped into the army, he still spoke the Teeside tongue. Andy and company were created more from memory than imagination...
...Merseyside, amid the dingy jungle of slums that surrounds Liverpool, unemployed dock workers pick through garbage tips in hopes of finding salable salvage. Shipyards are working at half capacity; 15 new factories are shuttered. In the northeastern shipbuilding cities of Hartlepool and West Hartlepool, 13.7% of the male work force is idle. The last new ship built there was completed 18 months...
...affluent Britain, unemployment is even harder to take than it was in Depression days, when hardship was the rule rather than the exception. "Today," says Joe Dyson, a Hartlepool shipyard plater, "we have been leading different lives, with nice little homes and little luxuries. A man on the dole now has more to lose than he ever owned...
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...